Gossip
What's the most ridiculous detail of the Piltdown Man hoax?
Chapter 1
The giant fakes of history
Chapter 2
When science got it wrong
Chapter 3
Tricks of the mind and eye
Chapter 4
The media's wildest fabrications
Chapter 5
Spotting the fake in the digital age
Ch 1 · The giant fakes of history
007skaty Taj al-Saltaneh
No suitors died for her hand, (she wrote her own truth, oh-oh)
BETA
007skaty Pop the brass bubbles of lies to learn how all forms of falsehoods collapse.
007skaty In October 1869, well diggers on William Newell's farm unearthed a stone figure that became a short-lived national sensation.
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Who engineered the Cardiff Giant hoax to mock literal interpretations of biblical giants?
007skaty Amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson fooled the world in 1912 with a fabricated fossil.
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In what year was the famous Piltdown Man fossil definitively exposed as a scientific hoax?
Fun Fact
Cardiff Giant copy: P.T. Barnum made a fake copy of the fake Cardiff Giant and drew larger crowds than the original.
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Which historical fraternity was behind the creation of Drake's Plate of Brass as a joke?
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What scientific technique was used in 1977 to prove Drake's Plate of Brass was fake?
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What did carbon dating reveal about the reed mat inside the Persian Princess sarcophagus?