Piltown Hoax

The Story began in 1912 near the Southern English town of Lewis in a village by the name of Piltown. There was a man by the name of Charles Dawson who was an ancient archeologist, one day while he was digging he found what he claimed to be an ancient piece of an human skull. He later invited England's leading geologist Arthur Smith Woodward, and a french  paleontologist, Father Pier. During that Summer they made more findings but one stck out in particular and that was what was said to be a human jaw bone. In December 1912 Charles made the the first public announcement on the findings and scientist applauded there discoveries. Up until this point only Asia, France, and Germany were suspected to have primitive fossils, now England  alas joined the club with these findings. Later on after WWII with new technology scientist could measure the fluorine content of fossils enabling to roughly be able to date fossils. After conducting these test in 1949 they showed that these fossils were rather young, 100,000 years young which made no sense. So in 1953 scientist conducted a full scale analysis with better dating methods, and which this evidence showed that there was fake staining on the bones and artifacts. Using a microscope they also found that the teeth were filled down, the jaw bown dated back less than 100 yrs and was from a female orangoutang.
This Hoax was not initially caught becasuse the scientist that were involved were so quick to say they found  fossils without searching for more evidence, if there was a piece of a skull and a jaw bone there would have surely been more pieces to complete the skull fossil. This negatively messed up the scientific process because they did not ask other researchers to compare there fossils with the fossils from other similar areas to make sure it was an actual human skull. The positive parts of the scientific process however were used when the actual testing using fluorine to show aging in the bones and the use of a microscope to show that the teeth were filled.
The Human factor in science will always be an issue in science, when you discover something that goes against the odds or other known facts you will do whatever it takes to make them true until an actual test is conducted and it makes it false so you may renew your hypothesis. I think the human factor is good for science, it keeps the scientist working and researching. With this whole story of the "Piltown Hoax" i've learned you should take everything with a grain of salt when someone is challenging or showing you something new because it could be fake. Wait until you here from other official sources and or do your own research to kind of get an idea of what you just saw.