[RunningWolf]

As I said, there were critics and doubters were there even earlier, almost right from the start.

But they did not get heard until years later as the doubt built upon doubt.

[Stultis]

critics and doubters [...] did not get heard until years later

Baloney.

From Blinderman's "Piltdown Plot Project" site, here's a partial list of published criticisms of Piltdown. Note that they go right back to 1913:

British

The Piltdown Skull. British Dental Journal (1913)

? •The Controversy over the Discovery of "Dawn Man"Current Opinion (Dec. 1913)

? • David Waterston. The Piltdown Mandible Nature (Nov. 1913)

P. Chalmers Mitchell. An Application of the Rules of Zoological Nomenclature Nature (Dec. 1915)

? • W. Courtney Lyne, The Significance of the Radiographs of the Piltdown Teeth. Proceedings of the Royal Society (January 1916)

Nature re. Critics. Nature (June 1916)

Louis Leakey. Our Stone Age Ancestors Adam's Ancestors (1935)

L. Leakey, and V. M. Goodall. Unveiiling Piltdown Man. Unveiling Man's Origin. (1969)

 

U.S.

? • Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. The Jaw of the Piltdown Man. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection (1915)

chart of jaw measurements

Miller, Jr. The Piltdown Jaw American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1918)

Miller, Jr. Reviews. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1920)

George Grant MacCurdy. The Revision of Eoanthropus Dawsoni Science (1916)

George Grant MacCurdy. Piltdown Man Human Origins: A Manual of Prehistory (1924)

 

Continental

Puccioni, Nello. Appunti intorno al frammento. Remarks concerning the Piltdown jaw fragment fossil. (1913)

M. Ramstrom, The Piltdown Find (1919)see Miller, Jr. Reviews

• Marcellin Boule. The Piltdown Man Fossil Men: Elements of Human Palaeontology (1923)

• Franz Weidenreich. The Piltdown Chimera Apes, Giants and Man (1945)

 

Swanscombe Man

Alvan T. Marston. The Relative Ages of the Swanscombe and Piltdown Skulls, British Dental Journal (1950)

• Reasons Why the Piltdown Canine Tooth and Mandible Could Not Belong to Piltdown Man. British Dental Journal (1952)

Last Home of "Swanscombe Man" Manchester Guardian (Dec. 1953)

 

Hoax or Fraud

? • Alfred McCann. Making the Piltdown Man God–or Gorilla (1922)

Piltdown Man: The Realization of Fraudulence Science (1970)

William King Gregory. The Dawn Man of Piltdown, England American Museum Journal (1914)

R. C. Preece. Alfred Santer Kennard (1870-1948) (1946)

R. Essex. A Hoax That Grew Kent and Sussex Journal (1955)