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Re:Hominin head-scratcher: who butchered this rhino 700k yea... by dschuler on Thursday May 03, 2018 @11:21AM (#16986804)
That reminds me of CERN discovering they didn't find a particle moving faster than the speed of light after all - a connector was loose somewhere [0].

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/910000...

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Re:Hominin head-scratcher: who butchered this rhino 700k yea... by chx on Thursday May 03, 2018 @01:40PM (#16988022)
Oh man, scientific errors are everywhere, remember the mystery serial killer striking in multiple countries seemingly at random? Turned out, the swabs in the DNA kits were contaminated at the manufacturer by a single person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

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