Piltdown Man lasted because the fossil fit what British science wanted to find. This video follows how weak evidence, institutional prestige, and delayed testing protected a fraud for forty-one years.
Chapters:
0:00 The fossil Britain wanted
2:05 The story fit too precisely
3:32 Objections did not prevail
4:44 Prestige protects the flattering lie
6:46 Weak evidence gets buried
9:00 The tests break the story
9:56 The system was disposed to accept it
12:44 The record shows the mechanism
#CascadeEffects
