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Copeland
publishes article on religion, science and newspaper
hoaxes
David Copeland, A.J. Fletcher Professor in the School of
Communications, has
published “A Series of Fortunate Events: Why People
Believed Richard Adams Locke’s ‘Moon
Hoax’” in the Fall 2007 issue of Journalism
History. Copeland’s research uses contemporary
scientific and religious thought to explain why virtually all
people believed as fact Locke’s story in the New York
Sun that claimed renowned astronomer John Herschel had
discovered humans and other forms of life on the Moon.
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