Uh, who here is denying, defending or excusing any fraud? Piltdown was a fraud (hoax), Haekel's embryos were fraudulent (willful distortion), and there are others that no one will deny. None of this excuses representing things that were not fraudulent (e.g. Hesperopithecus, Ramapithecus) as though they were. This is what is being responded to. Calling things "frauds" which are not fraudulent is as intellectually dishonest (and as damaging to truth) as excusing fraud.
You ought not adopt the high horse attitude while muddying the issue yourself.
Thanks for that admission. Let's see if your philosphical compatriot, Ichneumon, can find it within themselves to admit the same now too.
My point is made.
I was not part of what ever other discussion you must have with some other poster, so I don't know what else it is you are rambling on about to me.
An evolutionist's hoax is an evolutionist's hoax. Cardiff giant, Piltdown man, and Haekel. They're all yours. Case closed.