Came across this article on Atlas Obscura and found it really interesting: It absolves boss Tweed from the accusation to have the exhibits for an early dinosaur exhibition destroyed, possible for religious reasons, and points the finger at the treasurer
of the organisation" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dinosaur-museum-central-park-boss-tweed-nyc?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb

We don't learn anything about the motives of that guy, regrettably, but the article links to an older piece at the same outlet that indicates it may have been as mundane as worry about costs, with maybe a bit of xenophobia thrown into the mix

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-new-yorkers-became-convinced-that-dinosaur-bones-were-buried-in-central-park

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Burkhard wrote:

We don't learn anything about the motives of that guy, regrettably, but the article links to an older piece at the same outlet that indicates it may have been as mundane as worry about costs, with maybe a bit of xenophobia thrown into the mix

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-new-yorkers-became-convinced-that-dinosaur-bones-were-buried-in-central-park

You can search this group right now and find open hostility towards
any challenges to Darwin -- the man, his idiocy -- regardless of how
accurate.

This is a group for people who supposedly share an interest in
science, and dogmatism rules. On Darwin's character, his one and
only stupid theory (NOT "evolution") or even the Gwobull Warbling
narrative. Facts don't matter. "Sides" do.




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