No.2: Ahem...well, don't you think we should maybe ask for *more* than a million dollars? I mean, a million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days. Virtucon alone makes over nine billion dollars a year! Dr. Evil: Really? No.2: Mm-hmm. Dr. Evil: That's a number. Okay then. We hold the world ransom for.....One hundred..BILLION DOLLARS!!
I think Daniel Laine said that there are actually hundreds of "kings" in Africa - and that these 70 are only a small fraction that he could find or was allowed to photograph.
There are also many kingdoms in Asia (many are in name only) - it's interesting to see if anyone would do a similar project there (or anywhere else in the world).
Alex, I think the Tasaday hoax qualifies as a fraud - the people may be indigenous to the region, and they may be goaded or forced to "act" like stone-aged people, but act they did.
I'm not too familiar with the Kinsey report, but there are many ambiguous methodologies in social studies of that era. I'm sure there are facets of the Kinsey report that have proven the test of time, and there are some that haven't.
Lex10, I think the article was written pre-cloning controversy.
Ron, you're probably right. It's not that this calls evolution into question, the evidence for it is overwhelming. However, IMHO, the peppered moth experiment by Beringer is very flawed.
The list is by no means exhaustive. There's no piltdown man, Sokal affair (ok, not really a fraud, but still interesting), calaveras skull, archaeoraptor, etc.
Dr. Evil: Really?
No.2: Mm-hmm.
Dr. Evil: That's a number. Okay then. We hold the world ransom for.....One hundred..BILLION DOLLARS!!
And why is it that there is always one guy who said that it was photoshoppery?
There are also many kingdoms in Asia (many are in name only) - it's interesting to see if anyone would do a similar project there (or anywhere else in the world).
I'm not too familiar with the Kinsey report, but there are many ambiguous methodologies in social studies of that era. I'm sure there are facets of the Kinsey report that have proven the test of time, and there are some that haven't.
Ditto Freud - I only know enough about Freud to appreciate the Freudian slipper post previously on Neatorama: http://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/16/freudian-slippers/
Thanks everyone for the insightful comment!
Ron, you're probably right. It's not that this calls evolution into question, the evidence for it is overwhelming. However, IMHO, the peppered moth experiment by Beringer is very flawed.
The list is by no means exhaustive. There's no piltdown man, Sokal affair (ok, not really a fraud, but still interesting), calaveras skull, archaeoraptor, etc.