Great Myths and Legends: The Piltdown Fossil Forgery and the Search for the “First Englishman”

[@jiggermast]

Actually, I actually enjoyed this, actually very informative video, on the Piltdown Forgery actually! Actually, I actually enjoyed it actually even more than I actually thought actually. All Joking aside.....it's an excellent and informative video, thanks for uploading.

[@mr_oz3713]

Actually, I actually agree with you actually 15 times a minute,,,

[@jchang76]

@@mr_oz3713 That's hilarious! 🤭😆 I, actually (😝), enjoyed it a lot, as well, which, to be totally honest, frankly, truly surprised me her other lectures. There was one, in particular,, the subject of which, I actually love; but, her delivery of that lecture, unfortunately, was SO UNBELIEVABLY highly pitched - although, as in this one, more so, in certain parts of sentences, certain syllables, specific sounds, and/or letters - BUT, SO, SO much more so and SO much louder, AND THE INTENSITY OF THE NASALITY SO UNBEARABLE, that I had to, afterward, turn every light in my house off and get into bed with a heating pad on my head! Omg, you, truly, wouldn't believe the difference! Before I looked at the screen, when this first began playing - I was doing something across the room, and couldn't see it, for the first few minutes - and the voice, in many aspects, sounded familiar, I thought that it, in NO POSSIBLE WAY, could be her! I thought that, mainly, because - although, in so many ways, it sounded like "her" - it actually seemed, from what I heard, as though it might, not only, be bearable, but that, in this case, I may be able to ENJOY listening to it, as well as do so without it bringing on a 3 - 5 day long migraine!!! I CANNOT believe it, but that has, ACTUALLY, proven to be the case....so far...!🤞🤞🤞🤞 ●●OH! I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT THE "ACTUALLY " IS NOTHING, COMPARED TO HER USE OF "K?" AFTER - AND EVEN WITHIN EACH AND EVERY, SINGLE, SOLITARY SENTENCE, BASICALLY, AFTER EACH, ADDITIONAL LITTLE, TINY, PIECE ON INFORMATION, K?, IN SENTENCES IN WHICH THERE WERE, K?, OFTEN,K?, 7 OR 8, K?, NEW SNIPPETS OF INFORMATION, K ?, MINIMUM!!! I AM ABSOLUTELY, K?, NOT, K?, IN ANY WAY, WHATSOEVER, K?, EXAGGERATING, K?, IN EVEN THE SMALLEST, NOT EVEN,K?, THE MOST INFINITESIMAL AMOUNT, WHEN I TELL YOU, K?, THAT, IN A LECTURE THAT LASTED (NOT INCLUDING ANY QUESTIONS, K?) WHATSOEVER, K?, FOR AN HOUR,K?, AND 15 MINUTES, K?, THE WOMAN SAID,"K?," K?, MORE THAN, K? - AND, AGAIN, K?, I'M NEITHER JOKING, K?, OR, K?, AS I SAID, K?, EXAGGERATING, K? - AT LEAST, K?, BUT, VERY, VERY PROBABLY, K?, MORE, K?, 200, K?, TIMES, K?. NOW, K?, THINK ABOUT THAT, K?, AND THE INTELLECTUAL, K?, AND EMOTIONAL, K?, TRAUMA - OR, I DON'T KNOW, K? IT WAS, AND I AM NOT EVEN REMOTELY KIDDING, K?, THE MOST - OR ONE OF THE MOST, AT THE VERY LEAST - BIZARRE TH8NGS I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!! SHE HAS ABSOLUTELY IMPROVED HER LECTURE STYLE, BY ABOUT, PROBABLY, K?, 100,000% SINCE THEN, K? MORE POWER TO HER; HOORAY FOR HER, AND THANK ABSOLUTELY EVERY SINGLE GOD THAT HAS OR WILL EVER EXIST IN THE UNIVERSE - THIS ONE AND EVERY OTHER ONE, AS WELL!!!!! THIS LECTURE, THOUGH, WAS, BASICALLY, K?, VERY ENJOYABLE! I LIKED IT VERY MUCH! K? 😁😘

[@redmule8621]

Makes you doubt the rest of the story.

[@thehotyounggrandpas8207]

I'm a descendant of the Piltdown man.

[@RJAImpact]

Looking at some of the comments below I am of the opinion that this is a fraud and not a hoax. Woodward actually moved to piltdown and spent 30+ years looking for artifacts in and around Piltdown, which he never did. A tragic waste. I made my own video on this also.

[@juanitawatson596]

This was very interesting! Got me wondering if there may be lots of other forgers out there. Never heard of guard pigs before!😄 I actually can take "actually" better than I can tolerate "you know".🤣

[@ButOneThingIsNeedful]

While I find the Piltdown case compelling, and mean no unkindness, I would give this lecture a grade of around B- overall. Still, there was some good material and interesting slides. The actual presentation could have been much tighter and better focused. More specifics could have been furnished on Dawson, Hinton, and de Chardin (to me the most likely pool of suspects). Also, the delivery contained much repetition (e.g. "actually") and mispronunciation (e.g. "forager", etc.). But again, I enjoyed it and mean no harshness.

[@daccocchi]

There were some items frequently skipped in the usual documentaries. But I admit I'm a lay reader. It felt like the presentation went everywhere and lacked a clear point, other than it's still an important source of discussion.

[@enscroggs]

I'm actually bored to death. This is actually the first person I've heard describe Arthur Smith Woodward as an actual aristocrat. Maybe the definition of an aristocrat is actually very fluid, actually.

[@RutgerVos]

This is like listening to a lecture by The Nanny.

[@grzlbr]

Only 29 comments? not good

[@jakshar]

That is not how you pronounce Lewes. It is two syllables Lew-is, regards from a Brit

[@deeremeyer1749]

It was not a fossil.

[@enscroggs]

Actually, I think this presenter would benefit from a regimen of Pavlovian behavior modification, such as an actual electric shock being administered every time an unwarranted "actually" passes her lips. actually.

[@bigbearn1383]

Excusing hoaxes and fraud.

[@ForeverBleedinGreen]

This presentation is typical of any I've seen involving the Piltdown fraud - the presenter attempts to play the crime down by insinuating that it was perpetrated as a "practical joke" - as opposed to what is truly was - a criminal enterprise. Trying to label this case of felonious fraud as "a practical joke" between rivals, is tantamount to the perpetrators of the 1919 Chicago White Sox World Series scandal going into court using the excuse, "We were just kidding." The bottom line is the fact that England at the turn of the century did not have their own "Neanderthal man" such as countries like France and Germany had at the time. It's not hard to imagine the stuffy and conceited early-20th century Brits saying, "Why do we not have our own Neanderthal man?" The stone-cold truth of the matter is it's the same today as it was back then - the quickest way to scientific fame and fortune was to find "the missing link" between apes and men - and any missing link would suffice - even if someone had to fake it - which was far too easy, even for those times. Today's evolutionists, and especially naturalists, need to come to terms with the very unsavory fact that the set of fairy tales they have so much unwarranted faith in, started with anti-science from Charles Lyell in 1830 (another layman pretending to be a scientist), who almost single-handedly convinced Darwin to run with "his" theory, because of his own hatred of Christianity. And\aaaaa his fraudulent assertions of "deep-time", and continued less than a decade after "Origins" was published in 1859 with Ernst Haeckel's fraudulent embryo drawings, thru to Piltdown, then on to Nebraska man, the English peppered moth scam, and the plethora of evolutionary fakes, frauds, forgeries, and the myriad of lies told to maintain them and evolution. EVOLUTION IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE LARGEST, MOST CONVOLUTED, COMPLEX, LONGEST RUNNING, GLOBAL, CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY EVER PERPETRATED ON MANKIND...PERIOD. IT HAS ALSO BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS AND SUFFERING OF 100'S OF MILLIONS OF INNOCENT MEN, WOMAN, AND CHILDREN IN THE LAST CENTURY, AND THOSE WHO PROMOTE EVOLUTION TODAY CONTINUE TO PISS ON THE GRAVES OF OUR FALLEN HEROES WHO FOUGHT AND DIED AT THE HANDS OF THE WORLD'S MOST RUTHLESS EVOLUTIONISTS - HITLER, STALIN, AND MAO TSE-TUNG. YOU PEOPLE ARE COMMITTING TREASON, AND SHOULD BE TREATED ACCORDINGLY...I

[@shaungilholme3260]

I think you need a therapist or some sort of medical intervention, you sound unhinged and a religious zealot.

[@jkokbar1261]

Look like we got some religious nut job over here

[@russellarnott580]

Don't agree with everything you say but I wholeheartedly consider this to be a fraud and not a 'hoax' or similar. It put back proper research and understanding for decades.

[@TheNemocharlie]

Treason? I don't think you've quite got that right: Treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance; the crime of giving aid or comfort to the enemies of one's government.

[@matteomastrodomenico1231]

I don't think you know what evolution is