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A Fossil Spider Discovery Just Turned Out to Be a Crayfish With Some Legs Painted On
ScienceAlert ^ | Friday, December 20, 2019 | Michelle Starr

Posted on 12/28/2019 10:22:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: SunkenCiv

Piltdown Man Approves This Message.


41 posted on 12/28/2019 12:04:08 PM PST by Pelham (Obama. Seditious conspiracy. Misprision of treason.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Years ago, I was VERY interested in dinosaurs. Unlike many kids, I spent some time getting to know the details, and had a kind old man (friend of my grandpa) who knew some actual paleontologists.

They all, and I mean ALL, admitted a great many fossils on display are not reproductions but fakes. Some were done innocently, as they didn’t know for sure what that bone ridge looked like and they had to make a guess. Some were out and out frauds, as their funding depended on a certain view so they faked the results.

Kind of a cottage industry back home.

Moderan day example. There is a large buffalo kill site in western Nebraska. The Indians drove the herd off a cliff, and then butchered and cleaned the carcasses. I went there ten years ago, and all the official signs said “NO NATIVE AMERICANS EVER INTERACTED WITH THIS SITE!”
The museum overlooked the dig site. You could see the butchering marks and cut skulls that are common when people break down animals. Someone skinned those animals, and if it wasn’t Indians then who?

Seems the prof doing the dig was trying to get published, and she felt the best way to do that was to make something up.


42 posted on 12/28/2019 12:11:20 PM PST by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

lol


43 posted on 12/28/2019 12:13:12 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: ElkGroveDan

That is funny...Thanks...


44 posted on 12/28/2019 12:34:12 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: SkyDancer
Question then is: when was it done and by whom?

From the article, seems local farmers or some such...

"These things are dug up by local farmers mostly, and they see what money they can get for them," he explained.

"They obviously picked up this thing and thought, 'Well, you know, it looks a bit like a spider.' And so, they thought they'd paint on some legs - but it's done rather skilfully. So, at first glance, or from a distance, it looks pretty good.
45 posted on 12/28/2019 2:06:32 PM PST by battousai (Trump was wrong... I'm still not tired of Winning!)
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To: faucetman

They are both in Ohio but you shouldn’t eat either unless you want mercury poisoning.


46 posted on 12/28/2019 2:14:08 PM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: SkyDancer

There’s not ‘a missing link’ - - all the links between all the species are missing... Someone is trying to mess with the obvious... that we were created.


47 posted on 12/28/2019 2:37:45 PM PST by GOPJ (Washington Post & NYT (protectors of corrupt white liberaul elites) sell out their country.)
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To: GOPJ

Always like to ask evolutionists how can life come from non-life and to explain just the whole reproductive system that magically evolved. They always say it took millions of years. Yup.


48 posted on 12/28/2019 3:19:42 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SunkenCiv

It might be fake, but it still proves Global Warming is real.
/Leftbot


49 posted on 12/28/2019 3:45:00 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the worldÂ’s problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: \/\/ayne

I live near a large flea market where the state police have arrested vendors with counterfeit merchandise; when your children buy Pokémon cards with blatant misspellings of common English words, then you realize why they were so much cheaper than those in stores...


50 posted on 12/28/2019 5:03:51 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: hanamizu

I picked up a bundle of camping gear years ago, and it included a couple of knockoffs of scout mess kits. They didn’t put the scout emblems on them, and if they did you’d realize they were fake immediately - they were far lighter than the real deal. The plates could easily be bent in half like a taco; that would take real effort with the genuine ones. I simply gave them to a flea market vendor to make what he could from them; I couldn’t in good conscience even ask for $1 each.

I see this cheap crap all over Ebay and flea markets now; oddly enough, decades-old Japanese or Taiwanese versions which were considered inferior at the time are head and shoulders above the ChiCom crap - even after all that time.


51 posted on 12/28/2019 5:12:40 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: \/\/ayne

Heh. I Remember the archeoraptor thread.


52 posted on 12/28/2019 5:58:50 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: SunkenCiv; All
Here's a good scientific fraud story involving a scientist using a black marker. But he was caught.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobden/scientific_misconduct.pdf



53 posted on 12/28/2019 8:32:07 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: Pelham

So does Nebraska man.


54 posted on 12/29/2019 10:25:51 AM PST by JoeRender
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To: Right Wing Assault
Looks like he wasn't the Sharpie-est tool in the shed.

55 posted on 12/29/2019 7:36:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
He was a marked man.

56 posted on 12/30/2019 5:16:17 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: DeplorableGirl

I was raised in Mississippi.

We called them “crawdads”................


57 posted on 12/30/2019 6:35:45 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Red Badger
We called them “crawdads”................

Ear-Bending Cellmate : ...and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.

H.I. : You ate what?

Ear-Bending Cellmate : We ate sand.

[pause]


H.I. : You ate SAND?



Ear-Bending Cellmate : That's right!

58 posted on 12/30/2019 6:37:08 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

....... and THAT is how the SANDwich was invented!..................


59 posted on 12/30/2019 6:43:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: DeplorableGirl

Crawdads, they’s crawdads!


60 posted on 12/30/2019 9:07:10 AM PST by skepsel (I miss William F. Buckley and the old Firing Line)
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