Doesn't surprise me - carbon dating is only reliable when there is nothing else around to contaminate things. CSI and other TV shows have a lot to answer for, they make these tests look unambiguous, and often there are all sorts of grey areas.
There was an article I remember reading a few years back, think it was in Scientific American, referring to the CSI effect. Jurors in trials are so influenced by these shows that they expect all these tests to be carried out, even when they are irrelevant or would give ambiguous results.
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