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Dr. Phil
The fact that Phillip McGraw doesn't have a license to practice clinical psychology in California hasn't kept his TV alter ego, Dr. Phil, from practicing TV psychology. His most recent run-in with Britney Spears' family raised questions when he visited her in her hospital room privately and then released information to the public. Although the California Board of Psychology prefers to treat Dr. Phil as an entertainer first and a clinical psychologist never, real psychologists think he's giving them a bad name.
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Milli Vanilli
At a live performance in 1989, Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus (Milli Vanilli) found themselves lip-syncing to a skipping record. Questions arose about the group's legitimacy, and just over a year later Frank Farian, their manager, admitted that Fab and Rob were not singing on the records. That led to a slew of lawsuits and fan outrage. Read more.
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Rodney Rothman
Rothman wrote a story about walking into a dot-com company building and pretending to work there for 17 days without having been hired. The lighthearted and humorous tale, "My Fake Job," was published in The New Yorker in 2000. The magazine printed an apology a couple of issues later when they learned that a few aspects of the story were skewed and some entirely made up... Read more.
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Marilee Jones
Jones managed a nearly three-decade fake-out. In 1979 she applied to work in the admissions office of MIT with a creative spin on her credentials. In particular, she said she possessed degrees from three schools although she had not received a degree from one and had no record of attending the other two. The irony: She co-authored 'Less Stress, More Success,' a 2006 book geared toward high schoolers that urged readers not to make up information. Read more.
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Jayson Blair
The New York Times was duped by an employee of five years who had fabricated information and plagiarized regularly in his articles. After Blair resigned in May 2003, the Times commissioned a committee to get the full story. Blair had described things he never saw, quoted people he never talked to, and in some instances copied from stories in other publications. Read more.
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James Frey
Online media outlet The Smoking Gun ousted Frey for writing a faked memoir in its January 2006 story "A Million Little Lies: Exposing James Frey's Fiction Addiction." Frey's A Million Little Pieces chronicled his experiences with drugs, alcoholism and crime. In a six-week probe, The Gun found that Frey embellished on a number of facts, such as turning a cordial detainment by police for a few hours into a frightful fight with officers that led to an 87-day stay in jail. Read more.
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