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Fifty years after Piltdown man was exposed as an outrageous fraud, Tim Radford selects his all-time favorite science scams. (and Big Rick comments)



1. The Piltdown man mystery (a good story)

2. The amazing Tasaday tribe

3. A crop of circles (so funny that people believe in ufo's landing in a field to do these)

4. The great IQ scandal

5. Red faces at Bell Labs

6. The alien corpse at Roswell (a highly entertaining video with no facts to back it up, oh wait that was the JFK movie)

7. The signature of God

8. Something for nothing

9. Soviet spring of Trofim Lysenko

10. The krypton factor

11. Tony Robbins (ok I added that on my own)