True or false, the Fibula Praenestina was not published until that it could be considered as a key document for a new field of research, the scientific study of Latin language. History of Latin language was then becoming an independent field of the study of Roman literature. This paper tries to notice how important are scientific paradigms to understand correctly an object. These paradigms are very useful to detect fakes, but they can stimulate, however, new and more sophisticated falsifications.

1. La fíbula de Preneste y el nacimiento de la lingüística histórica del latín Francisco García Jurado Universidad Complutense [email_address]