Gosh, how weird. I was just reading this claim on answersingenesis this morning. Then I cross-checked the facts. Guess what -- someone made this up. It may have been twisted out of an edition of Nature, where it is stated "More than five hundred articles and memoirs are said to have been written about Piltdown man." [Nature editors 1954; Harter 1996].

Thanks for providing this first piece of inaccurate information from that website. I hadn't expected a creationist to be helping me with that.