Fraud? In science? That can’t be. Science and scientists are 100% accurate all the time and there is no controversy when their papers are “peer reviewed.” I know because politicians and Hollywood celebrities told me so.
Years ago, I was VERY interested in dinosaurs. Unlike many kids, I spent some time getting to know the details, and had a kind old man (friend of my grandpa) who knew some actual paleontologists.
They all, and I mean ALL, admitted a great many fossils on display are not reproductions but fakes. Some were done innocently, as they didn’t know for sure what that bone ridge looked like and they had to make a guess. Some were out and out frauds, as their funding depended on a certain view so they faked the results.
Kind of a cottage industry back home.
Moderan day example. There is a large buffalo kill site in western Nebraska. The Indians drove the herd off a cliff, and then butchered and cleaned the carcasses. I went there ten years ago, and all the official signs said “NO NATIVE AMERICANS EVER INTERACTED WITH THIS SITE!”
The museum overlooked the dig site. You could see the butchering marks and cut skulls that are common when people break down animals. Someone skinned those animals, and if it wasn’t Indians then who?
Seems the prof doing the dig was trying to get published, and she felt the best way to do that was to make something up.
That is funny...Thanks...