From Piltdown Man to the Stanford prison experiment, many famous scientific discoveries have been exposed as hoaxes or distortions ...

LONDON (AP) — It was an archaeological hoax that fooled scientists for decades. A century on, researchers are determined to find out who was responsible for Piltdown Man, the missing link that never ...

A new paper published by the Royal Society takes a stand on just who was responsible for one of the greatest hoaxes in the history of science. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

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Scholarly sleuths trying to get to the bottom of the Piltdown hoax believe they have at long last got their man, the mastermind in the most famous science fraud of the century. The skull and jaw of ...

Charles Dawson (seated) and Arthur Smith Woodward (right) at the Piltdown Gravel Pit, 1913(Natural History Museum, London, UK / Bridgeman Images) You see before you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, ...

One summer day in 1912, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson sauntered down to a gravel pit abutting his local golf course and made a discovery that shook the anthropological world for the next half ...

The resolution of the question of whether science does map the truth of reality or whether it is just another myth has consequences for us in our daily lives. In the 1920s, fundamentalists wanted to ...

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The Piltdown Man was once considered a crucial link in human evolution. This traces how the forged fossils deceived scientists for decades, how the hoax was uncovered, and the lasting damage it caused ...