Fakes, Frauds & Other Malarkey [Paperback]

Kathryn Lindskoog (Author), Patrick Wynne (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1992

Nearly everyone is deceived at one time or another. "Fakes, Frauds & Other Malarkey" is a good-natured yet passionate analysis of deception--from its innocent roots in imaginative play to the poison fruit of the cruelest scams. It offers hilarious and heartbreaking glimpses into the schemes of hoaxers in the fields of art, literature, science, medicine, exploration, education, finance and religion. This book offers special insights into the nature of spiritual fraud in history and in modern America. Even while Jesus told his followers to be as harmless as doves, he also reminded them to be as wise as serpents. Neither is easy.

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About the Author

Kathryn Lindskoog, M.A., has been uncovering fakes and forgeries since she was 18 years old. She has taught at Fuller Theological Seminary, Biola University and Rancho Santiago College. She is the author of "C.S. Lewis: Mere Christian" and two other books that have been Gold Medallion finalists. She now lives in Orange, California with her husband John who is a history teacher.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House (January 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310577314
• ISBN-13: 978-0310577317
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,830,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Review by someone who has read the book!, February 7, 2008

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S. Rushton "SRASLAN" (So Calif) - See all my reviews
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This book is a good book to read to get a sense about how we are fooled. Lindskoog brings from the simpliest way are fooled vis a vis hide and seek we learned as a child to some of the most vitriolic falshood perpetrated for the sake of self agrandizment. I recommend Amazon remove the 2 star review as they give no sense of the content of the book so one can make an inteligent choice. It is obvious the prejudice of the other reviews. Get this book for a fun read!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Study of Different Frauds, December 31, 2009

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Matthew Faulkerson "Guitarist and PC Geek" (Cuyahoga Falls, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fakes, Frauds & Other Malarkey (Paperback)

A good study of frauds but she is a christian theological teacher so you can expect and will see a little trashing of evoloution and science for example on page 26 she states support for the creationist position. Referring to things such as Darwinism and Evoloutionism these are only words that creationists use. Quoted: "reporters tend to assume that anyone who opposes_Darwinism_must believe in a flat earth: it is a battle between religious dogma and scientific fact, but that is malarkey it is usually a battle between religious dogma and cultural dogma masquerading as science." So shes admitting that seperation of church and state should be knocked down...or am I misreading this? Continued: "One does not have to be a fundamentalist to see that popular_Evoloutionism_(in contrast to evoloution) is as morally bankrupt as Marxism."
I cannot understand how someone who writes a book on frauds accepts and supports the fraud that creationism is in that in tries to push its way into the science classroom by any means neccessary, whether its by lying or outright fraud. I must mention that Evoloutionism is a creationist-invented term that scientists do not use, creationists use it to refer to ALL sciences (cosmology, geology, palentology) not just biology the definition may of been different back when this book was published but I highly doubt it since creationism IS religion and does not change much. Her argument is a straw man in that she is purposely misrepresenting the position of scientists there are no evoloutionists or darwinists anymore. Darwinism at best was a blending of the theory of natural selection and racist ideas of the early 1900s which was done by Herbert Spenser and not Darwin which has gone the way of the dinosaur.
I still give it three stars because I find the religious overtones, support of creationism, and the use of the bible references at the end (a book full of things that are wrong) to be a little dissonant, however it still can be a good read.

14 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Selective Skepticism?, October 21, 2004

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V. Nocito (New York City) - See all my reviews
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I never fail to be fascinated by the ease with which people of traditional religious faiths manifest Hypocracy. Ms. Lindskoog is obviously such a person. Her book on frauds and "malarkey" might have been believable if she wasn't Judeo-Christocentric and previously employed by a Seminary. You can't attack "fraud and malarkey," when you yourself are a believer in things which cannot be proven by Science. If you live in a glass house, you shouldn't throw stones.