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The Piltdown Man scandal is arguably the greatest scientific fraud ever perpetrated ... The faked fossilized remains of Piltdown man (stained to look old), newspaper articles from the 1950s exposing ... Charles Dawson announced the discovery of fossils from Piltdown in Sussex. These were supposedly a new evolutionary link between apes ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2016 - 2:48pm - 0 attachments

... and TheWinnower had existed in the Early 20th Century then Piltdown man would have been discredited as Raymond Dart published freely about ... the time this is not so baldly fraudulent as it was with Piltdown man.   Most of the time it is simply a fact that those who ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 24 2014 - 6:24am - 0 attachments

Since it's Easter season, all of Christendom will be awash in articles and television shows about the Shroud of Turin.  The Shroud, if you are new to the western world, is a cloth imprinted with the face and body of a bearded man; that would be Je ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Mar 28 2013 - 12:28pm - 0 attachments

I forgot my phone charger for the conference I went to last week. If this was just a year ago then I would barely have noticed. Mostly because my trusty old Nokia that I had then would have lasted long enough (I mean, the conference was only 2 friggin ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Jun 7 2012 - 5:04am - 0 attachments

A new museum in Petersburg, Kentucky greets visitors with a 20ft tall tumbling waterfall and at its base, mannequins of frolicking children play amongst dinosaurs. The Creation Museum, which cost $25 million to build, is home to many unusual si ...

Article - Sarda Sahney - Jun 11 2007 - 11:02am - 0 attachments

I am pleased to present once again an interesting TED talk. O.K., the talk is a little on the slow side, but Jack Horner’s Shape Shifting Dinosaurs is worth watching, for it shows yet again something that cannot be repeated often enough: Scientists ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 12 2012 - 3:59pm - 0 attachments

The postulate of special relativity, which in common terms means that no particle can travel faster than the speed of light, has been tested and shown to be correct in literally billions of measurements.  So the scientists at CERN who report measurin ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 25 2012 - 10:51am - 0 attachments

... led the scientific community to believe in the hoax of Piltdown Man for 40 years, led Lord Kelvin to say in 1895 that heavier ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Jun 24 2011 - 4:32pm - 0 attachments

... Nonetheless, having suffered a loss of integrity from the Piltdown Man hoax, BMNH scientists could not ignore the charge, and in 1985 the ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - May 31 2011 - 11:22pm - 0 attachments

... the link between humans and primates. The so-called Piltdown man, named Eoanthropus dawsoni, was dug up by the amateur ... Orangutan. All of the fossils found at the landmark Piltdown site had been planted. No wonder Dawson didn't find a link - the ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Apr 30 2009 - 11:02pm - 0 attachments