[Dimensio]

Some of those have, indeed, made their way up the chain and tricked the professionals.

Then the question becomes how many of them actually become accepted after the peer review process.

The most recent "fake fossil" that a number of creationists tout as "proof" that all of evolution is a fraud didn't even make it past peer review. Some layman "science" magazine did a big story on it before it was actually analyzed critically, and creationists considered that some kind of enshrining it into the holy Church of Darwin.

[MeanWestTexan]

I suppose the same question could be asked: how many fake scriptures made past the peer review process? There is certainly the Apocrypha to worry about. Pretty good idea that it's not real. But the Roman Church accepts it. Does that make the Gospel of John worthless?

And does the fact that the Shroud of Turan is probably a fake disprove the existence of Jesus?

The answer to both, is, OF COURSE NOT.

There are frauds and fakes in everything.