You seem very eager to associate Ida with Piltdown Man. Piltdown man was a hoax, a forgery. Do you have any reason to believe Ida is a hoax, or is this just generic anti-evolution mudslinging?
History.
I'm trying to think of one *missing link* earth shaking discovery which has turned out to be as significant as initially claimed and am coming up short.
Discoveries like that should be greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism instead naively accepting anything anyone says just because evos want it to be true so bad. It should be treated as a potential hoax, or at the very least, a misidentification until it has been thoroughly and rigorously studied and classified. This bickering among scientists over what to classify it as indicates too much eagerness and not enough caution in labeling it and making the final determination of what it is and where it goes in the evolutionary tree.
It makes the scientific community look like a bunch of gullible fools and destroys their credibility every time they have to backpedal because they over reacted.
For all the evos worry about science's reputation, they do it to themselves. Way to shoot yourself in the foot.