Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Word of the hoax got out. At first CBS denied the story. Lanza himself fumed : "This is the kind of stuff that makes me flip my lid. There is no reason to use old records. My voice is the greatest in the world...
...more thorough exposing by Brit ish scientists. Not only the human remains but the animal ones, too, were proved to be fakes. The flint implements found with "Piltdown man" had been stained, and the bone implement had been shaped with a steel knife. The perpetrator of the erudite hoax is still unknown...
...editor of Britain's Country Life magazine casually opened the entries in weekly contest No. 1266. The name signed beneath the first correct solution he came across was H.R.H. Princess Margaret, Clarence House, St. James's, London. After a discreet telephone call proved that this was no hoax, Country Life prepared to send Crossworder Margaret the prize: her choice of $8.82 worth of sporting books...
...This Modern Hoax...
...article, "A Farmer's Fun": I [do not] claim to have positive proof that Olof Ohman carved the Kensington Stone. The statement given to a reporter by me contained an express disclaimer of my ability or intent to specify the perpetrators of this modern hoax. The requirements of science and the declared purpose and spirit of my investigation were satisfied by a demonstration that the Kensington inscription can be completely explained as a modern fabrication...