This day in history: The world found out on this day in 1953 that the Piltdown Man was discovered as a hoax the day before.
Piltdown Man was basically a medieval human skull combined with the lower jaw of an orangutan that was "found" in a gravel pit in the near the village of Piltdown, England. Hailed as the "missing link" between man and ape-like species by promoters of evolution for decades, Piltdown man was exposed as a fraud only through later scientific testing and simple observation. The refusal of the discoverer to allow independent scrutiny of his claims enabled this fraud to persist for over forty years.
Piltdown Man should be a warning against a consensus view of science, and also that science often gets things wrong, and has, especially of late, proven itself to be a captured institution.
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