Slick con upsets scientific community

Guardian Unlimited Life History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud

I hadn't seen this when I posted the Vercors book review earlier today. But once I had "missing links" on the brain, this story seemed to be popping up everywhere.

Bottom line: a German professor appears to have been, uhm, embellishing his data and, uhm, manipulating his evidence - for decades! And, of course, innocent people have been building their own theories on his work.