Nobody's perfect, even scientists get duped (or try and dupe others). Here we've gathered the top 10 science hoaxes of all time.

No. 10 - The Nacirema Tribe 

The Nacirema were supposedly a tribe of people living in North America, as described by Horace Miner in his anthropological paper, published in 1956.

No. 09 - Disappearing Blonde Gene - [I think I knew a blonde by the name of Gene once! Huh!] Every generation or so, an alarm is sounded over the belief that natural blonds will soon go the way of the dodo.

No. 08 - Say No to Cake In 1995, British fake news show Brass Eye conducted an "investigative report" on a street drug they invented called "cake," claiming it affected an area of the brain called "Shatner's Bassoon." Whoops!

No. 07 - Alien Autopsy In the 1990's English cameraman Ray Santilli claimed to own footage of an alien autopsy performed after the 1947 Roswell Incident.

No. 06 - The Turk It was nearly impossible to beat this chess-playing automaton of 1770. Heralded as the next great venture into technology; it was even toured across Europe.

No. 05 - The Fiji Mermaid This artifact in P.T. Barnum's museum was advertised as a gorgeous topless siren, but was actually the mummified corpse of an ape sewn to a fish.

No. 04 - Rabbit Mother In 18th-century England, Mary Toft convinced doctors she had given birth to 16 rabbits.

No. 03 - El Chupacabra This savage chicken-eater was actually a hairless wolf.

No. 02- Archaeoraptor In 1999 National Geographic described this creature as the "missing link" between dinosaurs and birds. Yeah, not so much.

No. 01- Piltdown Man The whole thing started in 1912 when Charles Dawson claimed to find some interesting bones in a gravel pit.

A palaeontologist at the British Museum assembled the bones and believed that they represented the "missing link" between humans and apes.

Science is still looking for many "missing links". But DO NOT question evolution or YOU TOO MAY GO MISSING!