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Iceman in the cold light of day

The discovery of a Neolithic corpse in an alpine glacier in 1991 attracted widespread attention. What has happened in the eighteen months since then reflects badly on European science.

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Bahn, P., Everett, K. Iceman in the cold light of day. Nature 362, 11–12 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/362011a0

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