Actual scientists say that they are not old, they are not flesh,
that someone merely put together a bunch of bones in such a way as to create unusual dimensions: add an extra section of bone to make the fingers long, remove two fingers.
No, they’re saying that the ones that were studied were merely mockups of the real ones.
Hoaxes have long been a part of society. Remember the mermaids from long ago? Found to be half monkey spliced to a fish by taxidermists. Fooled lots of people.
Then there was the Piltdown Man, and The Cardiff Giant. And whom can forget the NY Sun newspaper and their discovery of men with wings on the moon!