Piltdown Hoax Blog Post

      The Piltdown Hoax, before its true identity was revealed, took part as one of the most influential historical discoveries science has ever made. Though, deceived into science, the Piltdown Man was suppose to be the "missing link" between the evolutionary connection of humans and apes. Piltdown Man was discovered in a gravel pit by Charles Dawson, known as an amateur archaeologist, by which he spotted what seemed to be a humans skull. Later finding a claimed to be human jawbone, which was suppose to date a million years ago. When presented the Piltdown Man in December 1912, the science community was upraise to the discovery and mislead England into thinking that ancient fossils was in their soils as well.
Scientist has found the human related fossils in other locations within Asia an Africa, but they were only date up to 100,000 years ago. This is what brought the rise of suspicion of what really was is Piltdown Man.
 
      Mistakenly accepting the Piltdown Man was probably because the scientist didn't perform the necessary steps and test before publication. The discovery was so astonishing that they were eager to show it to the world without taking precaution. Of course technology was not so advanced back then but if they were to take the time to actually analyze the fossil they could have detected the fraud early on. Evolution can not be proven without evidence and it seems they skip this theory as well. Scientist can not be naive to the marvel of what was found by presentation with no facts, if its to good to be true most of the time is not what it really is.

       These fault should teach Scientist that research methodology will provide relative datas, analysis and techniques should be taken into consideration so that the world of science will not be mislead. Quoted within Piltdown Man Hoax Video Part 1, stated that "it is embarrassing" because those scientist should have detected the fraud, the fossil does look tamper with because the tooth is too smooth for it to be an ancient human. It take a process to prove something is fact in science because those studies are record and then perform over again by future scientist. but the data was not adding up like any other fossil, how can the new findings of fossil be dated younger than the Piltdown Man but their are similar in jawbone structure. This became a problem and so the research method begins, they tested the jawbone by submerging it into fluorine. The amazing results were that they fossil was stained, to give it a darker color and like I mentioned earlier the teeth were filed smoothly and the creases within the bones were carved with a knife. This fossil belonged to a female orangutan dated 100,000 years ago just like the other fossils, the embarrassment of being mislead by a tampered fossil for 40 years.

     I wouldn't say remove human factors but remove desperation and self-pride as initial motives for finding the next great discovery. Emotions alone can cause conflicts in science creating bias theories which are not feasible for proper research. The personal human factors can cause damage to the continuity of studies, generations could be mislead like this situation with the Piltdown Man, everything demands the fundamentals of scientific research. Frauds like Charles Dawson, could have motives that was so eager to be noticed for finding a simple ape jaw he wanted the world to think he found something pertaining to man. As disgusting as it sounds his motive to present a lie is not honored, but the positive thing is that it make the scientist more aware of these types of frauds, should have been soon than later.

    The life lessons you could learn about this event is that not all that is "said" to be true, is true. Looks can be very deceiving and anybody can tell a white lie with a straight face to gain any type of recognition from it, if their clever. Overall without the necessary supporting facts and details it is not worth risking alternating knowledge for some self-egoism. Methodology is important and the greater rewards comes in truth. Always keep science pure because we never know how close we are to what we want to know about our world.