{"id":263,"date":"2025-07-25T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fluorideexposed.org\/facts\/?p=263"},"modified":"2025-07-17T03:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:35:30","slug":"dating-hoaxes-and-fluoride-in-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fluorideexposed.org\/facts\/dating-hoaxes-and-fluoride-in-ocean","title":{"rendered":"Dating, exposing hoaxes, and fluoride in the ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is fluoride a hoax? Nope, but it did prove the Piltdown Man skull was a hoax!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The longer a fossil is in the ground, the more naturally-occurring fluoride it absorbs from groundwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new method of dating fossils was used in 1953 to show that the Piltdown Man skull was not a new species of early human but a skull that was only several hundred years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full tale:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/aso\/databank\/entries\/do53pi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Piltdown Man is revealed as fake<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/fluorideexposed.org\/facts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fluoride-Fact-Friday-ocean-concentration.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fluorideexposed.org\/facts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fluoride-Fact-Friday-ocean-concentration.png 800w, https:\/\/fluorideexposed.org\/facts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fluoride-Fact-Friday-ocean-concentration-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/fluorideexposed.org\/facts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fluoride-Fact-Friday-ocean-concentration-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/fluorideexposed.org\/facts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fluoride-Fact-Friday-ocean-concentration-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A fun ocean fact for this Friday &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fluoride occurs naturally in ocean water at a concentration of 1.2 to 1.5 mg\/L.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A favorite science quote of ours from Albert Einstein &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/fluorideexposed.org\/facts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SCIENCE-QUOTE-Albert-Einstein-questioning.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fluorideexposed.org\/facts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SCIENCE-QUOTE-Albert-Einstein-questioning.png 800w, https:\/\/fluorideexposed.org\/facts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SCIENCE-QUOTE-Albert-Einstein-questioning-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/fluorideexposed.org\/facts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SCIENCE-QUOTE-Albert-Einstein-questioning-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/fluorideexposed.org\/facts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SCIENCE-QUOTE-Albert-Einstein-questioning-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Science keeps asking questions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See more in Death of a Genius and Old Man&#8217;s Advice to Youth: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=dlYEAAAAMBAJ&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=Life%2C%202%20May%201955&amp;pg=PA61#v=onepage&amp;q=Life%2C%202%20May%201955&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Never Lose a Holy Curiosity<\/a>,&#8221; LIFE magazine (2 May 1955) with is statement\u00a0to William Miller, p. 64, thanks to Google Books providing digitized versions of these historic publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is fluoride a hoax? Nope, but it did prove the Piltdown Man skull was a hoax! The longer a fossil is in the ground, the more naturally-occurring fluoride it absorbs from groundwater. 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