Why did the scientific community decided to publish a story about how their very own gold standard is flawed by design? The assumptions/design flaws in the carbon dating formula have been known for decades, but it hasn't stopped archeology from taking carbon data and proclaiming its exactitude.

I found an article from 1990 stating they found carbon dating was inaccurate, here
[link to www.nytimes.com (secure)]






And here we see some disbelief that carbon dating could be accurate when measuring dates OVER 30,000 years as a result of the ratio of atmospheric radioactive carbon to nonradioactive carbon has not remaining consistent over time.

[link to www.scmp.com]


Carbon Dating gets a reset
[link to www.scientificamerican.com (secure)]


Not only does this put a huge kink in our understanding of climate history, but threatens our understanding of the timescale of Human evolution through the discovery of tools, ancient campsites & the like.