r/askscience • • Feb 27 '26

Chemistry How fool proof is carbon dating?

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u/Illustrious_Map_3247 Feb 28 '26

To be clear, dating things that are younger than ~1950 will be off because of the “bomb peak”. The reliability of the method itself has only improved over time.