[Frankss]

The History Chanel had a show on "The Greatest scientific frauds of the 20th century" Piltdown man was a modern skull with an older apes jaw that had the teeth filed down, It was "discovered" in 1913 and it wasn't until 1953 that it was exposed as a fake.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The History channel show as you have described it is incomplete. (For one thing, Piltdown was "found" before 1912 so your dates for the History channel show are off.) I have read the back issues of "Science" and "Nature" to check things out. (I couldn't get back issues of the French of German equivalents, if any.) One problem was that the skeletons were kept away from the American, French, and German paleontologists.

What evidence do you accept as showing Piltdown is a fake? The lack of correspondence to evolutionary theory or the radiocarbon dating? How do you apply this evidence to other items?