ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cardiff Giant, Confirmation Bias, Gypsum
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Money? (maybe in the sense of keeping a job but were hoaxes necessary?) Fujimura worshipped because people thought there was some sort of magic in him, giving him ability to find material other people couldn"t. Every year, had announcements about what was going on. New findings every year to medias before publishing official report. Group structure in japan, not apart of that group= no access to data. Nationalism: whose got the oldest, whose got the best. Scientific method not applied to the issue of pre-40,000 year old sites in. How so? the hypothesis was not stated but it was a simple one: people were in japan before 40,000 years ago (alternative: they were not present at the time) Superficially it seemed like it no interdisciplinary analysis, no independent dating, no contextual analysis, none of the forensic work was done no debate, no publishing in strong science journals (conference papers in. Chicago in april 1997 were debated verbally but never published)
