'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries

Re:'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries by thedance on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:11PM (#22570043)

That is a generous interpretation. The museum didn't acquire them, they were founding artifacts of the museum. Serious scholars had already questioned their authenticity before the museum even opened, but it doesn't matter because the whole operation is just a huge grift by the Hobby Lobby billionaires to offload some worthless junk in exchange for a large income tax deduction.

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Re:'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries by lostlogin on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:16PM (#22570075)

It has been dirty all the way down. The saga of the Oxford professor Dirk Obbink seemingly selling off university documents to them (Via Hobby Libby) is still as murky as ever.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/europe/oxford-profe...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/16/mystery-deepens-...

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Re:'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries by atombender on Friday March 13, 2020 @10:51PM (#22572790)

The Guardian has a great article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/jan/09/a-scandal-in-ox...

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Re:'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries by munk-a on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:17PM (#22570085)

I wonder what fraudulent items being used for a charitable tax deduction can cause to future tax balances - will their income offset be counted as a debt for next years' taxes?

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Re:'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries by dang on Friday March 13, 2020 @04:18PM (#22570534)

Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait to HN? We've already had to ask you more than once, and we ban accounts that do this repeatedly. It goes against the purpose of the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries by microtherion on Friday March 13, 2020 @05:31PM (#22571042)

I'm not quite sure what is "flamebait" about GP's assertion. The number of criminal investigations initiated by the IRS has dropped from 5,314 in 2013 to 2485 in 2019:

https://www.goldburdmccone.com/blog/2017/06/what-are-the-tre... https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/2019_irs_criminal_investigat...

It seems to me that white collar crime, and the increasing impunity with which its perpetrators operate in the US, should be a legitimate topic of debate here on HN.

If GP had written "we need a functioning public school system", would you have considered this "flamebait" as well? That kind of assertion seems to be basically an article of faith among the YC crowd.

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Re:'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries by dang on Friday March 13, 2020 @06:02PM (#22571262)

Grandiose politicized provocations are flamebait. There's no actual information there. Your comment does contain some, and I wouldn't have replied to it that way.

Sensationalized political fights are one of the worst poisons here, so when an account is showing signs of using HN for that, it's not good. Substantive discussion of divisive questions (which your comment is more touching into) is a quite different thing, and much more likely to be ok.

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