Piltdown Hoax

Unfortunately many were fooled for a little over 40 years.... The scientific community searched for a fossil or something to prove something that has had people wonder for many years, in the early twentieth century that they hoped to prove a relationship between the man and an ape, then one day in 1907 they found a jawbone that they thought was a fossil that represented both species. Of course, the researches wanted to find something that made them more sure about what they had found. Then on 1912 Dawson and Woodward found two skull parts and a jawbone. As they both examined the bones they assumed they belonged with each other. And because they assumed it was all from the same skull they got very happy because it displayed characteristics of a man and a ape. The jaw was like one that belonged to an ape and the skull fragments of a human. December 1912, Woodward argues that the skull he found was from a Piltdown Man who lived about half a million years ago.  Many people questioned the fact that there could be a relationship because the jawbone seemed to just belong to an ape but not a human and ape put together. For over 4o years the scientific believed Woodwards argument and then suddenly one day it was proven to be fake. As they found more and more skulls over the years of humans that lived long ago they realized that the skull that was argued over for so long was nothing like the ones that they had been finding. They found out it was fake because they used a fluorine-based test to see how old the skull was. They found out that the skull fragments were over 50,000 years old but the jawbone only appeared to be a few decades old. Some museum researches said that someone must have taken a jawbone from and ape and stained it in order to make it look ancient.... Crazy isn't it? Human Faults that have taken place in this is how people are very gullible, and will believe anything they are told without even going deep into the research and finding out themselves. It was a very good thing that they found out it was a fraud because, It can help us many ways. It stops this from happening any other time in the future and they now know that people will pull anything in order to get credit for a certain situation. The fact that they researched this very well and tested it for example like using the fluorine based test, is very good because we find out how long those bones have been around for. It is not possible to remove the human factor from science because who else would research things that we do not have answers to? it is very tough to even really be sure what to believe because although you can research for years and years I believe no one will ever really be sure of anything. A life lesson that this has taught me is that anyone can trick you into believing something that really isn't valid, it can start from science to anything personal. Don't ever be too gullible!!