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<blockquote data-quote="Renata" data-source="post: 2634180" data-attributes="member: 524421">You&#039;ve read about the &quot;Piltdown Chicken&quot;, no doubt?In 1999, National Geographic called the fossil of the &quot;archaeoraptor&quot; a missing link.It turned out to be a purposely manipulated composite of two fossils.The hoaxes didn&#039;t end with the Piltdown man it seems.I&#039;d guess this is a big reason why people of many differing philosophies mistrust scientific facts.&nbsp; Most of us are not paleontologists, so where can we get accurate info?The assurance that the scientific community is &quot;self-correcting&quot; or &quot;self-monitoring&quot; doesn&#039;t seem so reassuring when people read about the huge bloopers they make.You can argue that the press grabs the story and runs with it, before the facts have been completely tested or scrutinized.&nbsp; But it is the institution or researcher which released the info, purposely, in the first place.&nbsp; Ya, we know its &quot;publish or die&quot; in the world of grants and funding and the press reports what will &quot;sell&quot;.&nbsp; The researchers are not altogether naive on this point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Renata, post: 2634180, member: 524421"] You've read about the "Piltdown Chicken", no doubt? In 1999, National Geographic called the fossil of the "archaeoraptor" a missing link. It turned out to be a purposely manipulated composite of two fossils. The hoaxes didn't end with the Piltdown man it seems. I'd guess this is a big reason why people of many differing philosophies mistrust scientific facts. Most of us are not paleontologists, so where can we get accurate info? The assurance that the scientific community is "self-correcting" or "self-monitoring" doesn't seem so reassuring when people read about the huge bloopers they make. You can argue that the press grabs the story and runs with it, before the facts have been completely tested or scrutinized. But it is the institution or researcher which released the info, purposely, in the first place. Ya, we know its "publish or die" in the world of grants and funding and the press reports what will "sell". The researchers are not altogether naive on this point. [/QUOTE]

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