:No.  Whoever told you this is B.S.ing you.  No contemporary of his ever suggested  and no one has ever found any evidence to suggest, that Boas was deliberatly deceptive.  Moreover, his findings have been confirmed by recent scientists.  In fact, the most recent research on this data uses more advanced statistical methods than what were available to Boas, and have discovered that the evidence for Boas's findings is even stronger than what Boas claimed in his articles.   |