Latest Bigfoot "evidence"

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jnelso99 said:
The yetis from 1960's Doctor Who look more convincing than that.
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What do you mean "look more convincing"? Of course they were convincing. They were real. Very real, and very scary. Very very scary. I-want-to-run-away-but-I-can't-move scary. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
 
Honestly I think people's obsession with Big Foot is more interesting than the concept of Big Foot itself. There's a seriously complex social psychology study just waiting to happen (who am I kidding, I'm sure papers already exist ... just who has the will to look for them?).
 
Dinwar said:
It's a colloquialism. What I mean is, I've spent the last three years studying the fossils of the Mojave Desert, focused on Tertiary mammal megafauna but I get a smattering of everything. Once got the chance to do some research on dinosaurs in Arizona, for example, and I spent two weeks once working 12 hours in the field, then coming back and working another 5 or 6 researching fossiliferous sediment in Washington State (that was a rough week, and my boss has told me that I'm not allowed to do that anymore). I do a LOT of field work; before my kid was born it was something like 40 to 50%. Basically, I have to be ready to head out for a week anywhere I'm told to go, within 24 hours. 85%+ of my field time is spent in the Mojave, however.

I have to say, I find it rather creepy that you're spending so much mental bandwidth on my biography. My career is nothing special; in my field, it's actually on the calm side. I've got a friend who lives in Texas, married a girl from France, and spent the last year on the North Sea in a research vessle. I've got another friend who grew up in Ohio, has his permanent residence in New York, and hops from country to country in Europe. I believe it was Charles Lyelle that said that a good geologist must explore the world as much as possible, and see every depositional environment they can; regardless of who said it, it's sound advice every geologist and paleontologist follows.

Again, none of this has anything to do with this thread.
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No, but you sure made an effort to explain it, thanks!!
 
^^ Yeah, that guy pretty much sums it up. Here is his advice for people interested in taking up the " hobby":

"A piece of advice he offers to those thinking of taking up the hobby is to find a research location close to their place of residence, preferably within an hour’s drive. "

A creature that can be realistically hunted an hours drive from pretty much any spot in the continental USA or Canada cannot be impossible to catalog.
 
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This was indeed pathetic. Only in the world of bigfoot does a walk through a park become an expedition. Does not the giant increase in the people looking for bigfoot in the last few years argue more for it's absense rather than existence? The number of new bigfoot clubs/groups gets larger every year and still no proof.
 
Yes. I believe that as the number of reports increase, the argument of the Bigfooters becomes weaker. Every report added to the pile makes denominator higher.
 
Thank you idoubtit!

idoubtit said:
We now interrupt this thread for a commercial announcement...

My report on the Ketchum Project is now up online from Skeptical Briefs. This forum was critical in being able to get the characters and timelines in place. So, I have been trying to get this online as soon as possible. It's the most comprehensive writeup on it in one place without having to piece it together over the many years.

Thanks to those of you (you know who you are) who helped with this. It was worth it to document such a fiasco in print.

http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/the_ketchum_project_what_to_believe_about_bigfoot_dna_science

A condensed version appears in Skeptical Inquirer. I suspect, as usual, that 'footers won't link to it because they don't like the hosting site. Or me. They are prickly that way.
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Amazingly clear and concise article about the whole Melba Ketchum debacle.

My interest in Bigfoot (or, more precisely, the people of Bigfoot) waned when an everyday event took me away from this forum.

I appreciate the work you put into this, idoubtit, and I am now a fan of yours.

:)

Thank you again.


Just wanted to add, WOW! I have a lot to read!
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I think I will start with "Sounds Sciencey".
 
A co-worker printed this out from Cryptoworld:

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It was something he tracked down because I dispute the existence of Bigfoot and he believes in it, and he wanted to show the token skeptic evidence... Or what passes for evidence in the alternate reality that is cryptology. I think it's an example of yellow journalism, personally, but I could have sworn I have seen this article presented here and subsequently debunked.

Is anyone else aware of it?
 
Drewbot said:
DURN IT!! His camera was facing the wrong way. :(

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=42978
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Red flags for this birder . . .

1) Real birders never fall for the "woods went silent" schtick because we know that happens all the time.

2) Real birders never use the word "chirping" to describe the sounds birds make. We specify "singing" or "calling."

3) Real birders don't put a camera on a tripod when photographing in dense cover.

4) Real birders use automatic settings on our cameras, or we're good enough with manual settings that we're ready go for high speed and low light when we're in, you know, a palmetto/hardwood hammock in Florida.

You Sir, are no true birder!
 
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