Sunday, August 2, 2015

Check out "The Piltdown Gang"

Group portrait of the Piltdown skull being examined. Back row (from left): F. O. Barlow, G. Elliot SmithCharles DawsonArthur Smith Woodward. Front row: A S Underwood, Arthur Keith,W. P. Pycraft, and Ray Lankester. Painting by John Cooke, 1915



As you can read from the links to each person in the painting, a couple of them have been sufficiently busted commiting science fraud.

Royal Society, Royal Society, Royal Society.  All the guys at the link seem to be connected somehow to Britian's august Royal Society.  Is there anything we should know about the Royal Society?

Yes, "The heirs of this magical current were saluted by the Illuminist and master-alchemist Comenius in his 1668 book, The Way of Light, dedicated to the first scientific organization in Western history, Britain’s august Royal Society. In it, Comenius addressed the first formal scientists as “illuminati” and outlined their scientific purpose, “which is to secure… the empire of the human mind over matter.” (read more)

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