Asked why he had perpetrated such a deceit, Fujimura answered tearfully, The devil made me do it.
Japanese archaeologist who fooled so many for so long leaves dark legacy of flawed theories
What I like, is the inference from the first article, that now someone else is going to have to re-write the story, ie, just make up a new one! Hilarious!
Ping to above. Seems someone is lying and it's not the Christians.
Seems the problem was restricted to Japan due to its failure to provide peer review and its reticence in allowing outside scientists. This sounds more like creationist science than standard western science.
Even so, science has a long way to go for the number of frauds to equal just one creation 'scientist's frauds.