SMRTR Science & EngineeringMar 31, 2026Nautilus

A Very Unscientific History of Scientific Hoaxes

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Scientific hoaxes have repeatedly fooled researchers throughout history, from the 1912 Piltdown Man fossil that took four decades to expose as fake human and ape bones, to South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk's falsified stem cell research that briefly promised revolutionary medical breakthroughs in 2004-2005 before being retracted.

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