Dawson, we've got to nail him.
We now know
he was an infamous hoaxer.
He actually perpetrated
a very large number of faked discoveries of all kinds.
If there's an afterlife,
he must be a very happy man.
There's no denying
that Dawson and his Piltdown Man
made monkeys out of many eminent scientists,
but Andy's convinced
that the lessons of the past have been learnt.
I really don't think anything like this could happen today.
It is very much a hoax of its time.
So many people wanted this to be real,
it became real.
And do you think it's made scientists a bit more suspicious?
Yes. I hope it has.
It's certainly made me a lot more suspicious.
Would you have been taken in?
I hope not.