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Carbon-14 Dating Reveals 5% of Vintage Wines May Be Frauds

Posted by timothy on from the better-than-backdating-a-check dept.

Carbon dating isn't used only for such academic pursuits as trying to determine the age of the Shroud of Turin, or figure out how old some rocks are. An anonymous reader writes "Up to 5% of fine wines are not from the year the label indicates, according to Australian researchers who have carbon-dated some top dollar wines."

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  1. Re:First by Anarki2004 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why hasn't slashdot implemented a filter that eliminates "first post" asshats? I don't think it would be all that complicated.

    now mod me offtopic

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  2. English by Fnord666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Carbon dating isn't all used for such academic pursuits ...

    Would someone please translate this into English? Oh, and if this was the editor's attempt, I would hate to see the submission!

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    1. Re:English by Cryacin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      What? he card read good!

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  3. Re:First by selven · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The filter already exists. And it seems to be working quite well right now.