Hoax
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With advances in the power/abilities of photo manipulation software, almost anyone can now make passable fakes with very little technical know how required. With the arrival of Smart Phones, and more importantly Ghost Photo Apps, making fake ‘ghostly’ images has become far simpler than ever before. There are now literally dozens of Ghost Photo Apps…
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Few scientific forgeries have captured the scientific and public imaginations as completely as that of the 1912 Piltdown Man hoax. While examples of blatant fraud can be found in many scientific disciplines over the centuries, out-and-out forgeries and hoaxes prove to be relatively rare. The Piltdown Man is one of the most studied and least…