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| title = The Eclipse Data From 1919: The Greatest Hoax in 20th Century Science

| url = [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_1039.pdf Link to paper]
| author = [[Richard Moody]]
| keywords = [[relativity]], [[eclipse]], [[einstein]]
| published = 2009
| journal = [[None]]
| num_pages = 26
}}

'''Read the full paper''' [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_1039.pdf here]

==Abstract==

Prior to 1919, general relativity was an obscure theory by a rising star in physics, Albert Einstein. Based on the perceived need to test this complex and intriguing concept, it was held as gospel that the sunlight passing by the sun should be bent by the gravitational attraction of the sun, something known to Sir Isaac Newton and modified by Einstein. According to prevailing wisdom, this should be observable during a total solar eclipse when the shielding of the sun's light permitted the observation of light from distant stars being "bent" around the sun.  In an effort to play the role of peacemaker and kingmaker, Arthur Eddington traveled to Principe in Africa with the express purpose of proving Einstein right. Prior to that, he was an advocate for Einstein, due, in part, to the fact that both men shared the same political beliefs, Pacifism. In his zeal to be both peacemaker and kingmaker (Eddington wanted to be known as the man who discovered Einstein), Eddington engaged in corruption and derogation of the scientific data, the scientific method, and much of the scientific community. To this day, this completely manufactured data set is quoted by&nbsp;two prominent scientists and the organs of publication. It surpasses the Piltdown Fraud as the greatest hoax of 20<sup>th</sup> and 21<sup>st</sup> Century science.

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