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To: ovrtaxt
Hmmmm...maybe he conformed his work to a modernist philosophy that demanded 20,000- to 30,000-year ages for human remains? I'm no creationist, but "having to rewrite history" is no minor assessment of what may be a major academic hoax, and one that lasted a lot longer, and had a lot more influence, than Piltdown Man.

Fascinating.

5 posted on 02/19/2005 4:53:03 AM PST by TheGeezer
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Frankfurt University's president, Rudolf Steinberg, apologized for the university's failure to curb Protsch's misconduct for decades. "A lot of people looked the other way," he said.

Sounds like a case of willful, active ignorance to me.

10 posted on 02/19/2005 5:04:14 AM PST by ovrtaxt (McClellan: Do away with daily press briefings! Come straight to the New Media!)
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Isn't there a major problem w/ the climate around Zeiten in that he was able to pass off the skulls of modern man as Neanderthal? I'm not an expert & I probably wouldn't know the difference, but I would think that other anthropologists should have raised some questions long ago. At least in the one case, the skull was intact--that is, not just a couple of little pieces of bone.


12 posted on 02/19/2005 5:08:03 AM PST by elli1
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