“How the Biggest Fabricator in Science Got Caught”

Last updated on: May 22, 2015 at 9:08 am by Dan Peterson

A reconstruction of Piltdown Man — Accepted as authentic from 1912 until it was exposed in 1953, “Piltdown Man” is generally recognized as the greatest hoax in the history of modern science. But, as this article demonstrates, fraud continues.

A fascinating article about sleuthing, about the problem of scientific fraud, and about one of the (several) limitations of the generally useful process of modern academic/scientific peer review:

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/how-the-biggest-fabricator-in-science-got-caught

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