ANT210H5 Final: ANT210 Readings.docx

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Indirectly though information (friends, tech, tv, books: belief that information obtained directly is best way, seeing is believing , have to be careful of mind and eyes tricking us. Science = objective and unbiased observations created explanations (hypotheses) for how these things work: science and nonscience : the essential differences. Intelligence is independent on weirdness of beliefs: high intelligence allows you to be more skilled at defending your beliefs, better at rationalizing with reasoned arguments. Mainichi shimbun to the story: fujimura had fabricated not 2 but 42 sites, fujimura seems to not have done it for money unlike george hull and stub newell. Syracuse standard that he had spotted an extremely large wagon, carrying a sizeable heavy load travelling toward cardiff the previous year: testimony in ithaca daily journal about newell braging to relatives about profitable fraud he perpetrated on public. Chapter 4: dawson"s dawn man: the hoax at piltdown: piltdown man most fame fraud of paleoanthropology.