In this episode, Mark Twain scholar Michael Pratt from Elmira College talks about Twain's paleontological activities and his general interest in science and technology.
Science hoaxes have been around a long time, most famously, the «Piltdown Man», a paleontological fraud that began in 1912, claiming to be the «missing link» between man and ape when a fake skill was discovered in a gravel pit in England.