Evolutionary Biology The Piltdown Hoax: A lesson on confirmation bias in science by David Warmflash, MD, Nathan H Lents, Ph.D. Reading Quiz Teach with this The scientific community uses the _____ process to identify errors or deceptions in scholarly papers. confidence green light laxness peer review Confirmation bias is an error that involves accepting all _____ evidence and rejecting any _____ evidence. contradictory; fossil contradictory; supporting supporting; contradictory supporting; evolution Which of the following researchers spent many years of his scientific career and retirement searching for more Piltdown Man fossils as a result of the hoax? Raymond Dart Charles Darwin Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Smith Woodward One way the hoax perpetrator fooled researchers was to bury the Piltdown Man bones with mammal fossils and ancient flint tools. true false Which of the following tests was available for analysis of bone in 1912, yet wasnǯt used on the Piltdown specimens at the time? Nitrogen testing Fluorine testing Carbon dating mtDNA analysis There were no critics of the Piltdown Man discovery, which is why the hoax was believed for so long. false true Which of the following characteristics made Eoanthropus dawsoni appealing to Britain's scientific community when the discovery was presented in 1912? The mandible was highly evolved. The brain size was roughly the same size as a chimpanzee. It was an upright walker. It was discovered in England. The Piltdown Man hoax only had a negative impact on science. false true Score Quiz