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Monday, February 6
February 6, 2012

British scientists want to know who perpetrated the Piltdown Man hoax in 1912. Did the hoaxers expect that the stained skull, jawbone, and “cricket bat” would immediately be spotted as fakes? “No one did any scientific tests. If they had, they would have noticed the chemical staining and the filed-down teeth very quickly. This was clearly […]

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