Question

What damage did the piltdown man hoax do to the scientific community

Answer 1

"Scientists made false assumptions about human evolution while ignoring genuine discoveries." Just did this question on apex and it was correct. :-)

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Answer 2

Many people started to disbelieve and question what the scientific community says about things. For example, if some "do-not-occur-every-day" thing happened, and the scientists said that "this-or-that" was the problem, the general population may not believe them, for they would think it is another hoax.

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