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Science 8 March 1996:
Vol. 271. no. 5254, p. 1357
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5254.1357a
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News & Comment

Constance Holden

Scientific indignation has been spilling out, mostly over the Internet, since Sunday evening, 25 February, when a major U.S. television network ran a "special" suggesting that humans co-existed with the dinosaurs, and that the establishment was suppressing the evidence. The show "is absolutely shameful, [and] it sort of sets us back 100 years," said one anthropologist. But the producer of the program, The Mysterious Origins of Man, which was aired by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), insists there is hard evidence that man lived 200 million years ago.




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