[MeanWestTexan]

No, he is correct.

It's a big money-maker in China to put different fossils together and sell it to stupid tourists.

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

[narby]

It's a big money-maker in China to put different fossils together and sell it to stupid tourists.

I have no doubt tourists buy all kinds of stupid things.

But if the fossils found in recent years in China with the feather details are "manufactured", then someone needs to hire the artist who did it. They deserve to go on display merely because of their skill in microscopic fakery alone.

[Nataku X]

Someone must've dropped a joint in the sandwich I was eating while on this thread. My IQ has dropped to room temperature and I can't focus my eyes.

[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.