The Piltdown Hoax

The Piltdown Hoax started when Charles Dawson found pieces of a fossil that resembled a human, but also an ape in certain ways in Piltdown, East Sussex. The jawbone, was the key find in this archeological dig. It had characteristics of an ape, but the teeth were flat, and more shaped like human teeth. Nobody doubted the find as it was a time of scientific integrity and scholarship. Dawson got two other people involved in this archeological find. Arthur Smith Woodward and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin soon joined the process. This is why, when the scientific methods came about to place the bones at a generalized date, the bones were placed merely one hundred thousand years before; however, this would have been way to early for these fossils to be from. This is why they did a full fledged test on the fossils, and found that the bones had actually only been from about a hundred years in the past.
This threw scientists off. This was what led the teeth under a  microscope. Researchers found that the teeth had been filed down to be like someone had wanted them. Also the bones had ben broken so that the scientists could not tell the true origin of the bones, a female orangutang. The suspects were immediately the founders of the fossils. This led to the theory that Dawson worked with one of Woodward's employees to stain the fossils and create the fake evidence. However, this theory has not been proven and could have simply been the employee helping the investigation of the faked fossils. This led to a new age of suspicion in science rather than the integrity and belief that came before.
The faults that come into play in the Piltdown hoax are greed for fame, and for one's own personal works to be renown. This makes the scientific process a lot less trustworthy. This means that with every knew find, other, new scientistic have to bc up the information and check it. Scientific advancements made it possible for the fossils to be revealed as fakes. A process by which researchers check the levels of fluorine in bones to be able to tell when around the fossil originated from. Sand, gravel, water, dirt, etc. can provide random fluorine particles that the fossils pick up. Therefore, by taking the fluorine levels, they can give a rough estimate of how long ago the fossil is from.  do not believe that it is possible to remove scientists from the scientific process because even with the technology we have today, there would need to be a scientist to use it, and develop the tests. I think that events like this are very rare, and that even if it was possible to take scientist out of the process, I do not think it is the right thing to do. It eliminates the opportunity for growth and innovation. I think that scientists will always be at the head of the scientific revolution, and they are needed to expand our views on science and its methods.
I have learned that you cannot always base everything on faith. It seems that, although someone may be in high regard, like a scientist, you cannot just trust his or her word. Testing their theories, findings, experiments, etc. is a way of eliminating this problem. These hoax type situations need to be prevented from polluting the minds of America with false evidence of history. Basically, everything needs to be double checked before it is just believed. Also, greed for glory or fame does not get you far. Dawson's works may have been respected, but when the truth was found our, he was discredited from the scientific world.