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Revision as of 15:20, 6 February 2021 by 76.167.217.105 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) The main article for this category is Deception.Deception is the act of propagating a belief that is not true, or is not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand, as well as distraction, camouflage, or concealment. There is also self-deception, as in bad faith. It can also be called, with varying subjective implications, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, ruse, or subterfuge.
See also: Category:SecrecyContents
Subcategories
This category has the following 42 subcategories, out of 42 total.
C
- Camouflage (4 C, 7 P)
- Cheating (9 C, 2 P)
- Clandestine groups (8 C, 45 P)
- Communication of falsehoods (20 C, 61 P)
- Confidence tricks (6 C, 151 P)
- Conspiracy (4 C, 16 P)
- Corruption (20 C, 43 P)
- Cover-ups (9 C, 95 P)
- Covert organizations (1 C, 28 P)
D
- Deception operations (5 C, 7 P)
- Decoys (1 C, 14 P)
- Delusions (28 P)
- Disinformation (9 C, 50 P)
- Diversionary tactics (5 C, 21 P)
F
- Factitious disorders (1 C, 13 P)
- Fake news (5 C, 66 P)
- Fakelore (5 C, 38 P)
- False advertising (1 C, 21 P)
- Fraud (39 C, 150 P)
- Front companies (1 C, 2 P)
- Front organizations (3 C, 53 P)
H
I
- Illusions (6 C, 32 P)
L
- Lying (8 C, 40 P)
M
- Magic (illusion) (14 C, 36 P)
- Masks (13 C, 10 P)
- Military deception (6 C, 23 P)
- Misinformation (4 C, 39 P)
- Misuse of statistics (27 P)
O
- Obfuscation (15 C, 16 P)
P
- Passing (sociology) (4 C, 19 P)
- Perverting the course of justice (1 C, 5 P)
- Propaganda (13 C, 61 P)
- Pseudo-scholarship (5 C, 12 P)
- Pseudofossils (8 P)
- Pseudohistory (24 C, 226 P)
- Pseudoscience (73 C, 475 P)
S
- Scientific misconduct (5 C, 32 P)
- Sleight of hand (3 C, 52 P)
- Social deduction games (2 C, 10 P)
T
- Tricksters (2 C, 4 P)
Pages in category "Deception"
The following 58 pages are in this category, out of approximately 258 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Pseudolaw
- Pseudophilosophy
- Pseudoscience
- Pseudotheology
- Psychological subversion
- Puffery
- Punjab National Bank Scam
Q
R
- R v Ingram, C., Ingram, D. and Whittock, T.
- Rage-baiting
- Rape by deception
- Red herring
- Redwashing
- Ringing Bells Private Limited
S
- Saradha Group financial scandal
- Scam City
- Scams in intellectual property
- Secret passage
- Security theater
- Self-deception
- Server-side request forgery
- Sham peer review
- Sham surgery
- Shill
- Shrinkflation
- Sliding bookcase
- Smear campaign
- Smoke and mirrors
- Smuggling tunnel
- Social engineering (security)
- Sock puppet account
- Solomon Joseph Solomon
- Spin (propaganda)
- Spoofing (anti-piracy measure)
- Sportswashing
- Spyware
- 2022 West Bengal School Service Commission recruitment scam
- SSC Scam
- Statement analysis
- Stealth juror
- Superstition in India
- Swampland in Florida
T
- Tactical deception in animals
- Timeline of misinformation and disinformation in Canada
- Torrent poisoning
- Trojan horse (business)
- Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009
- Truth serum
- Truthiness
- Turncoat