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"missing link." Fame and fortune awaited the scientist who found the link proving Darwin right: that man evolved from a monkey. In 1912, success! In a gravel pit near Piltdown in East Sussex, there was found the cranium of a man with the jaw of an ape. Evolution skeptics were pilloried, and three English scientists were knighted for validating Piltdown Man. It wasn't until 1953, after generations of biology students had been taught about Piltdown Man, that closer inspection discovered that the cranium belonged to a mediev...

Commentary What has caused the diversity of life? In most schools nowadays, the standard answer is evolution. According ...

The infamous Piltdown Man skull. Photograph: Rischgitz/Getty If you read about scientific fraud in the recent news, it would seem that there is much to worry about. It’s on the rise, apparently! There has been a 10-fold increase in the number of retracted papers since the 1970’s, and a number of these are due to fraud or suspected fraud. An investigation of retractions from the biomedical scientific literature database PubMed published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA (PNAS) found that a whopping 63.2% of health- and life-science related retractions ...

Brian Gardiner obituary Palaeontologist who studied the bony ancestors of salmon and cod, and what lungfish had in common with four-limbed animals Brian Gardiner catalogued fossil fishes from what are now Canada and South Africa Brian Gardiner catalogued fossil fishes from what are now Canada and South Africa Thu 15 Apr 2021 06.31 EDT Early in his scientific career, Brian Gardiner, who has died aged 88, was seduced by fossils – the remains, shapes or traces of ancient organisms preserved in rock. Brian wanted to learn how these should be interpreted and classified and what they reveal about...

AP Photo/Mike Stewart Last week, the Wall Street Journal broke what should be viewed as the top media story of the past decade… at least. In a story headlined Trump Call to Georgia Lead Investigator Reveals New Details, the Wall Street Journal published a verbatim transcript of a telephone call between President Trump and the chief election fraud investigator for the office of the Georgia secretary of state, Frances Watson. The alleged contents of this conversation had been part of the national conversation ever since January 9 when Washington Post reporter Amy Gardner published a story cla...