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		yannis on June 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up ... See the "the earliest Englishman" aka "Pildown man" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man Stereotypical comments, lower the standards of this site and are intellectually tiresome.

nsonha on June 26, 2021 | [–]

What is your argument? Is it what's called whataboutism? I find it "intellectually tiresome"

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Fossil hoaxes from China are not some distant outlier incidents, they're very recent and systemic.

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