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To: EndWelfareToday
And please don't ask me to do your homework for you.

How is it my "homework" to say what you think constitutes a "hoax" regarding Nebraska Man (for instance)?

I absolutely and in complete and forthright honesty know of nothing that is fraudulent about Nebraska Man. I know the fossil was genuine. I know that the researchers at the American Museum certainly thought it was an ape's tooth. I know that they sent casts of the tooth to dozens of scientists and institutions around the world. I know that they tried (in the face of much skepticism) to make their case. I know they kept pressing the matter until they managed to disprove their case.

I simply cannot possibly imagine what you consider to involve fraud or "hoaxing" in all this. I really can't. You need to tell me.

You refuse to tell me. I assert that it is very simply because you cannot. You're welcome to falsify my assertion. (But you won't.)

68 posted on 06/14/2007 11:25:19 PM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Stultis; EndWelfareToday
Hesperopithecus was never presented by the scientists working on it as a "species of man"... I simply cannot possibly imagine what you consider to involve fraud or "hoaxing" in all this. I really can't

EndWelfareToday happens to be correct and you are wrong. Osborn misidentified the tooth as belonging to a primate. Based on this one tooth, Elliot Smith (the Piltdown guy) had an illustration of two knuckle-dragging Nebraska Men published in The Illustrated News of London in 1922 and claimed Nebraska Man was an ancestor of humans. That was a total fraud and hoax.

72 posted on 06/16/2007 4:22:50 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
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