Episode 3: Piltdown Meltdown, Anthropological Hoaxes, Fakes, and Folderols

From Presidents to pop stars, it seems like everyone is falling for hoaxes these days! In this episode, The Two Humans take a deep dive into the most famous anthropological hoax of all time to find out why we're attracted to false information. Episode 3: Piltdown Meltdown: Anthropological Hoaxes, Fakes, and Folderols An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. www.intro2anthro.podbean.com  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542  IG @introtoanthrowith2humans Resources: Bacon, Francis 1902 Novum Organum. edited by Joseph Devey. P.F. Collier & Son, New York, NY. 2015 Francis Bacon: The Complete Works (Centaur Classics). Centaur Editions, Kindle edition. BBC News 2021 Cerne Abbas Giant Age Revealed by Scientists. BBC News, May 12, 2021, www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-57076224. Booher, Harold R. 1986 Science Fraud at Piltdown: The Amateur and the Priest. The Antioch Review. Autumn 1986, Vol. 44, No. 4, Tricks & Bones: The Piltdown Fraud (Autumn, 1986), pp. 389-407. Duffy, Kathleen 2014 Teilhard’s Mysticism: Seeing the Inner Face of Evolution. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY. Fox, Alex 2020 Snail Shells Date England’s Cerne Abbas Giant to Medieval, Not Prehistoric. Smithsonian Magazine, July 9, 2020, www.smithsonianmag.com/smart- news/snail-shells-reveal-englands-180-foot-cerne-abbas-giant-not-prehistoric- 180975274/. Goodrum, Matthew R. and Cora Olson 2009 The Quest for an Absolute Chronology in Human Prehistory: Anthropologists, Chemists and Fluorine Dating Method in Paleoanthropology. The British Journal for the History of Science, March 2009, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Mar. 2009), pp. 95-114. Hancock, Peter 2015 Hoax Springs Eternal: The Psychology of Cognitive Deception. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. King, Ursula 1996 Spirit of Fire: The Life and Vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY. Langdon, John H. 1991 Interpreting Piltdown. Current Anthropology. December 1991, Vol. 32, No. 5 (Dec. 1991), pp. 627-631. Mead, Rebecca 2021 A Giant Mystery: Is an enormous chalk outline of a naked man an ancient image—or a modern joke? The New Yorker, May 24, 2021, pp. 18-23. Oakley, Kenneth P. and J. S. Weiner 1955 Piltdown Man. American Scientist. October 1955, Vol. 43, No. 4 (October 1955), pp. 573-583. Popular Science 2015 100 Hoaxes & Mistakes That Fooled Science: Experts Expose the Worst Bloopers and Fakes—from Crop Circles to Miracle Cures and Beyond. Fog City Press, San Francisco, CA. Spencer, Frank 1990 Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery. Oxford University Press, London. Thomson, Keith Stewart 1991 Piltdown Man: The Great English Mystery. American Scientist, May-June 1991, Vol. 79, No. 3 (May-June 1991), pp. 194-201.