Hmmm, an almost complete fossil with patterns of fur still visible. What a find! This is great! Just what we’ve been looking for.
*cough* archaeoraptor *cough*
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
If it’s genuine, fine. No problem that they found a nice, well preserved fossil.
But after archaeoraptor and Piltdown Man, if scientists want to believe that this fossil is some kind of missing link so bad that they aren’t willing to consider that something that fits in just a little bit to conveniently might not be another hoax, they, and you, have nothing to complain about when it comes back to bite them.
Like I said, the archaeoraptor "find" was rejected by two science journals and was only published in a popular science magazine, which later printed a 5-page apology. So now you're up to two examples, and yet still maintain that's enough to suggest any new fossil find might be a hoax. Like I said, generalized mudslinging.