Charles Brown wrote: >In biology, see the hoax perpetrated by Sir Cyril Burt on intelligence >testing and heredity discussed by Stephen Jay Gould in _The Mismeasure of >Man_. It lasted for some number of decades. Also, there was the Piltdown >hoax in biological anthropology. > In economics, there is the lump-of-labour fallacy hoax and the economic growth hoax, both still very much alive and going strong. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm
