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When is an isotope not an isotope?
When it's in quotation marks presumably
"Analysis of chemical "isotopes" in the 60,000-year-old fossil suggest a carnivorous diet, matching results from other Neanderthal specimens." - full story
Are these fake isotopes?
"Analysis of chemical "isotopes" in the 60,000-year-old fossil suggest a carnivorous diet, matching results from other Neanderthal specimens." - full story
Are these fake isotopes?
Not necessarily. Use of quotation marks just indicates reported speech. So we don't know if the analysis was carried out on isotopes or not, we're just told that someone described them as such.