Philosophically, who posed the greatest joke on human history?

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I'm curious to know what you (whom ever you may be) believe is the most tragic joke played on mankind by a philosopher. Not a philosophy, but a specific premise innovated - or framed - by a specific individual, which achieved the worst historical outcome: mass acceptance.
Who was the person, the person's achievement and why was it so base and destructive?
 
From the point of view of people working in Academia, definitely Jacques Derrida. He argued that we can never truly know what another person intended to say in a piece of writing, and did so in so ridiculously opaque a style that he succeeded in hiding the flaws in his reasoning.
 
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