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There’s a lot of talk about “Fake News”\u00a0these days. The greatest “Fake News” I’ve written about involved a famous California scientist who didn’t exist.\u00a0The exploits of J. Fortescue, a La Jolla pathologist, came from the active imagination of the late Dr. Rawson Pickard, a La Jolla pathologist, and his friends.<\/p>\n
The hoax started in the days of Prohibition, when a group of local doctors, lawyers and architects gathered at the Turf Bar in Tijuana to swap stories and sip refreshments. Pickard, who was well-known for his pranks, got the idea to create Fortescue and a fictitious organization, “The International Board of Hygiene.” The board held regular meetings at the Turf Bar.<\/p>\n
Pickard and his chums wrote the Secretary of the League of Nations, informing him of their new international organization. The letter was written in French on expensive, engraved stationary and signed by the new board president, J.Fortescue. \u00a0Read the full story…<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a lot of talk about “Fake News”\u00a0these days. The greatest “Fake News” I’ve written about involved a famous California scientist who didn’t exist.\u00a0The exploits of J. Fortescue, a La Jolla pathologist, came from the active imagination of the late Dr. Rawson Pickard, a La Jolla pathologist, and his friends. The hoax started in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}