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2005-08-26 02:17 pm

You couldn't make it up no.13: I wonder if the real thing was as effective?

From the Daily Telegraph

Priest, doctor, fund-raiser . . . and conman
By Catherine Elsworth
(Filed: 25/08/2005)

Fred Brito believes that his true calling is as a Catholic priest. But he also makes quite a good psychiatrist. Most recently he has been earning £55,000 as a university fund-raiser.

The only problem is that Brito, 50, an accomplished con artist, held none of these positions legitimately, having spent nearly 30 years bluffing his way into a string of white-collar jobs.

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2005-02-22 03:03 pm

The biggest scandal in prehistoric anthropology since Piltdown Man

(NOTE by FPB: this is particularly significant for me because I have long had big trouble with the notion of Cro-Magnon Man being closely associated with, or even the same species as, Neanderthal Man)

History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud

Flamboyant anthropologist falsified dating of key discoveries

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