Re: Piltdown Man

Scott Rainey (scottr@hevanet.com)
11 Aug 1995 09:41:12 -0700

NADEL@litc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel) writes:

>>In article <3vu13t$i95@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>,
>>Joe Toth <jtoth+@pitt.edu> wrote:

>>>Could someone please help me out with a one paragraph synopsis of the
>>>Piltdown hoax: who was involved, what happened, etc. Please email your
>>>response. I really appreciate any help.

>You may be interested to learn that one famous person who was taken in by the
>ruse and narrowly avoided a scandal was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Annother was L. Ron Hubbard who incorporated Piltdown Man into the
cosmology of the "religion" we know as "Scientology"