It turns out there are two ‘halves’ to the Ida fossil find.
The other half, which has been around for a while, was extensively ‘faked’.
See the link in post 46.
That doesn’t mean this new half is also fake, but it makes one think twice.
The way I read it, the smaller half was found first, and missing pieces were reconstructed. I suppose you can call that "faked" if you want, but there's still no evidence of an intention to deceive. In fact, if you compare the reconstructions to the actual skeleton, you can see they got pretty darn close, and in any case weren't trying to make it seem like more than it is.
Then when the larger half was found, they realized it went with the other half and contained that parts that had been reconstructed before. There are no reconstructed parts in the current specimen.