ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pseudoscience, Zheng He, Barry Fell
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Meaning of the cricket bat or hinting at hinton. This cricket bat was a clear joke, and was a prank and he confesses that he was the. It was planted under the hedge, and only saw what he wanted to see. There were not men who saw jokes one who planted it. It could be that hinton knew that it was a hoax. After hinton died, they found a box with bones using the same chemicals. We have to use proper scientific method. One group felt that perpetrator should have met with consequences. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. It reminded scientific world that we have to maintain vigilance, and skepticism. If people had knew who it was at the time, they could have stopped them and viewed previous hoaxes. Especially if it was a professional or an amateur like dawson. Yes they did, they wanted a fossil better than german.
