Piltdown Man on This Day in History

 

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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A Bigfoot Hoax on This Day in History

 

This Day in History: A hoax perpetrated by a man who claimed that he had seen "Bigfoot" (also called "Sasquatch") caused a rush of more than 50 American and Canadian bounty hunters to Colville, Washington, in search of the legendary creature on this day (January 27) in 1969. Joe Metlow, a mining prospector, announced that he had seen the 9 ft tall beast, estimated to weight 1,000 pounds in northern Stevens County, and offered to divulge the location of the sighting in return for a "suitable" payment. By January 30, the hunters searched Stevens County by airplane, by helicopter, and on foot. Metlow rejected all offers of payment (including one for $55,000) as unsuitable, and the Bigfoot hunters gave up after a few days of fruitless searching.

Also in 1969, Skamania County, Washington, passed a law making killing a Bigfoot punishable by a felony conviction resulting in a monetary fine up to $10,000 or five years imprisonment. In 1984, the law was amended to a misdemeanor and the entire county was declared a "Sasquatch refuge". Whatcom County followed suit in 1991, declaring the county a "Sasquatch Protection and Refuge Area". In 2021, Rep. Justin Humphrey, in an effort to bolster tourism, proposed an official Bigfoot hunting season in Oklahoma, indicating that the Wildlife Conservation Commission would regulate permits and the state would offer a $3 million bounty if such a creature was captured alive and unharmed.

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