Re: Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Skeleton

From: Tedd Jacobs (Jacobs_at_mail.boisestate.edu)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:01:22 -0600

"jackson" wrote...
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:01:53 +1000, "Clayton <Insert Pop Culture Pun
> Here>" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonyemail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"MrPepper11" <MrPepper11@go.com> wrote in message
>>news:57cfd534.0410270938.209bfc3e@posting.google.com...
>>> October 27, 2004
>>> Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Skeleton
>>> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>>
>>They just had a story about this on the Channel 10 news....with the
>>reporter, not just once but several times claiming this find "shatters the
>>theory of evolution!!!"
>>
>>Is it too much to ask a reporter on a science show to have at least an
>>eighth grade education in science?
>>
>
> headlines seen:
>
> Discovery Shakes Up Understanding of Human Evolution
> New species of humans found
> New human species is so tiny, so recent, it stuns scientists
> Scientists discover 'real-life hobbit'
> Good hair day for hobbit hunters
> Bones offer evidence of little people
> Get ready for more new humans
> Flight of the little hairy people
> A lost cousin in a lost world
> Archaeologists discover real home of the human hobbit
> Scientists unearth species of hobbit-sized ancestors
> The 1m-tall 'hobbit' that rewrites the history of mankind
> 'Hobbit' joins human family
> Lost Tribe of Little People
> Hobbit-sized human found
> Mini-human find
> Tiny fossil upends history of evolution
> Dwarf Skeleton Puzzles Scientists
> Tiny human find turns palaeontology on its head
> Mystery hobbit man lived alongside humans
> etc. etc.
>
> even political ones like:
>
> October Surprise II: Missing Link To Liberalism Discovered
> http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/s/sheppard/04/sheppard102804.htm
>
> amazing, ain't it?

what were you expecting, accuracy from the media?

t. 

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