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from the there-are-little-fibs-and-big-fibs dept.
An Anonymous Coward provides the following story:
A Guardian story from a week or two back shows that not all in the scientific community are as diligent or trustworthy in their research as would be hoped:
"It appeared to be one of archaeology's most sensational finds. The skull fragment discovered in a peat bog near Hamburg was more than 36,000 years old - and was the vital missing link between modern humans and Neanderthals. This, at least, is what Professor Reiner Protsch von Zieten - a distinguished, cigar-smoking German anthropologist - told his scientific colleagues, to global acclaim, after being invited to date the extremely rare skull.
However, the professor's 30-year-old academic career has now ended in disgrace after the revelation that he systematically falsified the dates on this and numerous other "stone age" relics."
"Anthropology is going to have to completely revise its picture of modern man between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago," said Thomas Terberger, the archaeologist who discovered the hoax. "Prof Protsch's work appeared to prove that anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals had co-existed, and perhaps even had children together. This now appears to be rubbish."
Damn it science.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 31 2015, @02:02AM
The most direct challenge to multiple Bill O’Reilly controversies was published [today, March 30, 2015], as a cameraman whom O’Reilly claims to have rescued during 1982 coverage of Buenos Aires riots says the Fox News host made up his account.
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/bill-o-reilly-rescue-story-refuted-cameraman-o-172549768.html [yahoo.com]
On Fox News in 2013, O’Reilly claimed to have rescued his photographer, who was bleeding from the ear: “My photographer got run down and then hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete. And the army was chasing us … I dragged him off.”
Mother Jones tracked down the man who claims to have been O’Reilly’s cameraman, who flatly denied O’Reilly’s story.
“I never fell nor was I bleeding out my ear at any time during my Buenos Aires assignment,” Ignacio Medrano-Carbo said. “I do not even recall Mr. O’Reilly being near me when I shot all that footage nor after I left the unrest at Plaza de Mayo that evening. But it is not uncommon to be separated from your reporter during a disturbance such as that one.”
O’Reilly disputes the claim, telling TheWrap, “I never worked with Ignacio Medrano-Carbo. This is nothing more than yet another coordinated attack which predictably comes on the heels of my appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.”
Another member of the CBS crew, Jim Forrest, also confirmed Medrano-Carbo was paired with O’Reilly that night.
(Score: 2) by Non Sequor on Tuesday March 31 2015, @02:30AM
You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue.
Compromise? Reconciliation? Pffffft. What matters in politics is that everytime your team takes a hit, you find a way to even the score.
Write your congressman. Tell him he sucks.