The scientific community uses the _____ process to identify errors or deceptions in scholarly papers.
Confirmation bias is an error that involves accepting all _____ evidence and rejecting any _____ evidence.
Which of the following researchers spent many years of his scientific career and retirement searching for more Piltdown Man fossils as a result of the hoax?
One way the hoax perpetrator fooled researchers was to bury the Piltdown Man bones with mammal fossils and ancient flint tools.
Which of the following tests was available for analysis of bone in 1912, yet wasnǯt used on the Piltdown specimens at the time?
There were no critics of the Piltdown Man discovery, which is why the hoax was believed for so long.
Which of the following characteristics made Eoanthropus dawsoni appealing to Britain's scientific community when the discovery was presented in 1912?
The Piltdown Man hoax only had a negative impact on science.
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