Anthropologist resigns in 'dating disaster'

Worlnetdaily ^ | February 19, 2005 | unattributed

[DainBramage]

Among their findings was an age of only 3,300 years for the female "Bischof-Speyer" skeleton, found with unusually good teeth

The gold Mastercard in her purse tipped them off.

[Savage Beast]

I thought this was going to be about another sex scandal.

[drt1]

LOL. 'His story' is flexible when in the hands of some isn't it.

[martin_fierro]

Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads

[mikrofon]

Among their findings was an age of only 3,300 years for the female "Bischof-Speyer" skeleton, found with unusually good teeth in Northern Germany, that Protsch dated

Some people rob the cradle for love, apparently this guy robs the grave. At least he has standards re: dental hygiene...

[stayathomemom]

I was wondering what the inspiration for the Scrappleface article was. This must be it.

[Tacis]

Fortunately, this guy will be abble to find a teaching/research position at the same American university that employs Ward Churchill. In fact, it sounds like he would raise the level of integrity at that school.

[Lazamataz]

Oh great.

Now this thing will be playing on my computer 24/7 for the rest of my life.

[Vaquero]

He who smelt it...dealt it.

[wyattearp]

He may have lied and faked his way on invented data, but hey, at least he wasnt a Creationist.

Are you sure about that? He misidentified modern humans as Neandertals. That's classic creationist.

[LibFreeOrDie]

More here, including photo of the lovely Reiner:

http://www.deutsche-welle.net/dw/article/0,1564,1493421,00.html

NOTE! Links at the bottom of the page to articles about other German science scandals.

[isom35]

he should send his resume to cbs.

[WestTexasWend]

"Does anyone see a future where we could say "Professor Smith just pulled a 'von Zieten?"


Could happen..."pulled a Protsch" has a nice ring to it, too (easy to remember 'cause it rhymes w/ crotch).

[King Prout]

?

[PatrickHenry]

This seems to be real. I've found a couple of other news stories about it. There's an earlier thread on this (by a couple of minutes), but it's already wucked up, and it has an odd title, so let's stick with this one.

[PatrickHenry]

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[PatrickHenry]

Here's another article with more info. The guy seems to be a total nutcase:
German scholar is exposed as fraud.

The creationoids will have a ball with this. They can add it to their tiny list of fraudulent finds, like Piltdown Man. But it should be noted that the frauds were exposed by scientists, not creationists (who deny the validity of the means used to test the fossils).

[King Prout]

well, one of the scientific method's true strengths is its innate tendency towards self-correction through constant re-evaluation.

but, yes, the uber-creationists will have a field day over this.

oh, well: even a stopped clock...

[PatrickHenry]

yes, the uber-creationists will have a field day over this.

At any moment now they'll be here, screaming that this "proves" the reality of Noah's Ark, the 6,000 year age of the universe, the collapse of everything we know about biology, etc.

[Youngblood]

Indeed. Science is self-correcting, and this man will be marginalized and discredited. If only other fields of endeavor had the same standards...

There have been one or two other high profile cases in recent years. There was a young physicist who was on the road to superstardom and got caught pretty quickly (he was German I think, working at Bell Labs), and a veteran Danish ecologist who worked on swallows (I'm not sure how his case turned out in the end). I heard also that that guy Lomborg, the author of that book The Skeptical Environmentalist, was having one or two problems in this area in his native Denmark.