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35: Don't DeExtinct the Dodo, Humans vs Computers, and Art Forgery

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Is Forger's Work Just the Work of Scientists?

James Martin used to teach a two day course on how he detected art forgery. A 2015 French fiction novel, Furser or Forger, mentions how you must avoid micro particles from your clothes. And after Martin had taught about a case where he found the fibre from someone's modern clothing in a painting, this story came out. So he suspected that it was due to that, and he decided to stop teaching the course because he realized he was basically teaching forges.

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