Elementary: Arthur Conan Doyle may have created Sherlock Holmes, that paragon of dispassionate logic, but he was himself fascinated by the occult and easily fooled. In particular, he was completely fooled by a couple of schoolgirl hoaxers, who faked some amateur photographs using paper cutouts of fairies. These became known as the Cottingley Fairies. But some say he had the last laugh at science's expense: He is a prime suspect in the Piltdown hoax, which set back the paleontological study of ...

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