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<< Farmer's story has evolved to where he meant an unnamed-but-famous radio talk show host and lawyer in one particular show. Funny, but I can't get an answer on the basis for this recurring pamphlet-claptrap claim of discarded Piltdown Man being being cited in High School texts. >>

I gotta give you that one. Piltdown man was used as evidence for evoution in the past, but is not used today like frauds such as Haeckel's embryo forgeries and the staged photos of the peppered moth's are.

Let's be reasonable. Give them about 40 years to catch up. That's about the normal time for science to be "self-correcting" when it comes to evolutionary myths:

Piltdown man was not exposed as a fraud for 40 years after its discovery. Glad they finally eradicated that fraud.

For over 20 years, "brontosaurus" was displayed without a head at all, then for the next 50 years, they had the wrong head on it. But after 70 years, they've finally got it right - except Yale Museum still has camarasaurus feet on it today! I will admit this was probably an honest mistake, not a fraud.

It took only about 100 years for the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff to discover their ichthyosaurus display was two different creatures and that many supposed real bones were actually PLASTER of Paris covered with several coats of PAINT to make them appear old. One wonders how many of these we haven't caught?

The triceratops on display in the prestigious Smithsonian Institution for nearly 100 years actually contains the bones of 14 different animals, including the feet of a duckbill dinosaur.

It's taken over 100 years and all of Haeckel's forgeries are not removed yet. We must give them adequate time to update the science texts! Patience!

Huxley's "monera" forgery was not corrected in any English publication for over 95 years!

It's only taken 40-50 years to start correcting the peppered moth photos. If we just give them adequate time, they will make the corrections - see? They've cut the response time in HALF!

Although, they caught the hesperopithicus pig-man blunder in only about five years (although it did take another 50 years before they discovered the peccary still existed), so there is hope they can correct the current errors before an entire generation is misled by evolutionary fabels, frauds, mistakes, and myths again.

I gotta give you that one. Piltdown man was used as evidence for evoution in the past ...

For several years after 1912. Perhaps into the 1920s.

I gotta give you that one. Piltdown man was used as evidence for evoution in the past, but is not used today like frauds such as Haeckel's embryo forgeries and the staged photos of the peppered moth's are.

Just one mantra after another from the pamphlet scientists. Been there and done that with you on Haeckel's embryos, here and here.

Let me now add peppered moths.

For over 20 years, "brontosaurus" was displayed without a head at all ... I will admit this was probably an honest mistake, not a fraud.

... One wonders how many of these we haven't caught?

You've got to do a lot more babblin' and bubblin' than that to make the world of evidence go away.