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> Otoh the deception lasted 100yrs.

Not really. Pretty much from the inception, the academic community was strongly skeptical of its authenticity. While Yale has only recently admitted that it's a forgery, that's probably due in large part to reluctance to admit that they spent a lot of money on a pretty clear forgery.



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