The fraudulent archaeoraptor fossil
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Posted on 12/04/2019 9:24:00 AM PST by fishtank
Separating fact from fiction in a farcical story! Were fossil dinosaur feathers really found near the South Pole?
by Phil Robinson
Published: 3 December 2019 (GMT+10)
Dino-bird evolution frequently causes excitement on social media platforms so my attention was grabbed by a picture of a fully feathered dinosaur with a sensationalist National Geographic headline that read, “In a first, fossil dinosaur feathers found near the South Pole”.1 However, what had actually been found differed so significantly from the headline that words such as overreaching speculation and grandiose story-telling immediately came to mind. In what follows, I have broken down the article’s salient points to highlight the highly misleading nature of National Geographic’s claims.
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I know this won't stop some people here.
(Sigh.)
The fraudulent archaeoraptor fossil
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From article:
Leading paleornithologist Alan Feduccia was scathing in denouncing the debacle over Archaeoraptor:
In his open letter to Peter Raven, Storrs Olson asserted that National Geographic had “reached an all-time low for engaging in sensationalistic, unsubstantiated, tabloid journalism,” and “The idea of feathered dinosaurs . . .
is being actively promulgated by a cadre of zealous scientists acting in concert with certain editors at Nature and National Geographic who themselves have become outspoken and highly biased proselytizers of the faith.”
Although the scandal was resolved through the self-corrective process of science, it is worth noting that it would not have occurred had a more critical attitude toward dinosaurs and the origin of birds prevailed in the scientific and popular literature.
In illustrating the degeneration of scientific discourse with respect to this issue, Olson’s letter clearly illustrated that the highly respected magazine National Geographic and a major scientific journal, Nature, were incapable or unwilling to consider critically the question of the origin of birds.3
I see hundreds of dinosaurs with feathers everyday.
Post the entire article and we’ll read it.
Looks like my Irregular Flagstone Patio, at the back of the condo.
Bet you were wondering where it went.
Nat Geo needs to stick with articles on African tribes with the women walking around topless..........That’s what a friend told me.
Just a mud pit back there now...
Birds are a highly specialized theropod dinosaur. Yes, that’s the famous T-Rex in the family tree.
The dinosaurs didn’t die out. They’re called birds.
I read the article. The several included photos look like feathers to me. Then the writer inserts information about fossil fakes from commercial sales in China to discredit Australian paleontologists.
Archaeopteryx cries when he reads this kind of stuff.
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