Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum - America's "Bigfoot Professor"

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There's a **** load more interesting places I'd travel to for 6 Gs. Plus, I wouldn't have put up with a bunch of nitwits.
 
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GT/CS said:
It’s a tax deductible vacation.
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Exactly. Let's say you are in a 30% bracket. You save .3*$6,000 = $1,800 in taxes.

And that is just one trip. They're writing off anything they think they can get away with. But all travel, hotels, and meals. Gizmos they buy like cameras and camp gear. Association dues, and the association pays for things a little harder to hide on an individual tax form. Assistant trackers.

I was looking for little feet, I found the mother lode, and I can't write a penny of it off. Someone else collects muscle cars. Another guy has a showcase lawn and yard, boat, whatever.

Wouldn't you like to write your own hobby off as a charitable contribution?
 
Castro said:
...It reminds me of Meldrum's attempt with his cancelled "World Conference on Relict Hominoids" in South Africa.
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:biggrin: It really took a staggering amount of dumb to come up with an idea that could make the eager-to-be-credulous-all-one-God-faith BLAARGers say "Eh, I don't think so." It was akin to wanting to hold a World Elephant Conference™ in Branson, Missouri and only inviting Africans to attend.

How is it possible somebody like Don "The Snake" Meldrum, an almost respected employed college professor, could be a part of such shameless and purely profit driven shenanigans? Because profit driven. It's not a secret that he's motivated to be in the Bigfoot business by one thing, hard cashish. And I have little doubt these idiots figured on a base 100 participants as their model. 100 x $6,500 = $650k. Say it cost them $150k in airfare, $100k in lodging and $100k in food and hard costs to produce the event, there's still $300k left to pay six speakers and make a profit. They pay each speaker $10k and Meldrum $50k (the most he's ever made in one sitting), and there's still $200k profit. Too bad it's so dumb.
 
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^Too bad indeed (his blimp project was great too... :D).
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In most academic settings, grant money contains some salary for the investigator but this is only an offset. In other words Meldrums salary stays the same and the extra money essentially goes mostly to the department chairman.
All those kids, alimony, and 10% of his total income to the cult I mean superstition I mean religion. He’s under financial pressure and it shows. Even the footers see his endorsement of Standing as incomprehensible.

Does his wife ever go along to watch him bilk the rubes and
make sure he isn’t passing out his room keys?

Could ask the same about Gimlin’s wife I guess...who by the way must have been told about the hoax, as they were married in 64 and she was party to the animosity toward Rodger Dodger.
 
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Mrs. Gimlin sued Roger and Al D. didn't she?

I thought her name was on the lawsuit.
 
According to an extremely reliable source, Meldrum haz a HILARIOUS tantrum regarding the article in September’s Smithsonian Magazine.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-so-many-people-still-believe-in-bigfoot-180970045/

He (and by “he” I mean Prof. Meldrum) sent this in an email to Ben Crair, the writer of the piece.
WARNING: not safe for your irony meter.

I see my first instinct was correct. So Smithsonian is on the tabloid gravy train, eh? What a piss-poor piece of journalism, if I could even stretch that term. What a waste of my time. What were you doing during our lengthy interview — checking your twitter account?
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You have to pay for the rest of the article? Or does it just end there?

Because I see no Meldrum quotes in the part I saw.

The comments are priceless, I want Parcher to breakdown those commenters and pair them with their Bigfoot Forum names.
 
I was wondering about that also. If you hit the 1 of 5 buttons you get a little more but it still seems truncated.

Yes the comments are also hilarious. Perfect: the Americans who want to believe, just showin’ off the stupid.
 
DennyT said:
I was wondering about that also. If you hit the 1 of 5 buttons you get a little more but it still seems truncated.
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That probably is the end of the article. The final two sentences are...

Smithsonian said:
On the internet, Bigfoot has found a habitat much more hospitable than North American forests. It turns out that Bigfoot does not need to exist in order to live forever.
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Which look like conclusion sentences. That's how you end an article like this.
 
DennyT said:
According to an extremely reliable source, Meldrum haz a HILARIOUS tantrum regarding the article in September’s Smithsonian Magazine.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-so-many-people-still-believe-in-bigfoot-180970045/

He (and by “he” I mean Prof. Meldrum) sent this in an email to Ben Crair, the writer of the piece.

"I see my first instinct was correct. So Smithsonian is on the tabloid gravy train, eh? What a piss-poor piece of journalism, if I could even stretch that term. What a waste of my time. What were you doing during our lengthy interview — checking your twitter account?"


WARNING: not safe for your irony meter.
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:biggrin: Note how the psychopathy is present in even the most trivial of his writings. The concern is only about himself. Somehow he's the victim because of the amount of time he supposedly "wasted" talking to this guy who in the end gave him the credence he deserves, none. Yet Meldrum makes no mention nor has any concerns for any of the galactic amount of hours of "wasted time" he as Don "The Snake" Meldrum, Mediocre Terrible Scientist has inflicted on all those other monster seeking humans who pursue the beast on a regular basis solely because he swears on his scientific grave it's out there. There must be hundreds of thousands of hours of "wasted time" he's responsible for (and it's climbing). Literally millions and millions of dollars of wasted resources in pursuit of a beast some airhead scientist keeps alive only so he personally can make a little extra money. It's really quite sordid, wholly unethical and completely immoral.

I think his response to the article makes it clear it takes big balls to be a psychopath.
 
Drewbot said:
You have to pay for the rest of the article? Or does it just end there?

Because I see no Meldrum quotes in the part I saw.

The comments are priceless, I want Parcher to breakdown those commenters and pair them with their Bigfoot Forum names.
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That's the problem. Not a single mention of Meldrum in the article. A crime of lese-majesty, literally :D.
 
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That's the problem. Not a single mention of Meldrum in the article. A crime of lese-majesty, literally :D.
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If asked, "Hey you interviewed Meldrum for this article but didn't use him? why not?"

He'd say, I interviewed a guy just like him for my "Monster Parties- Fact or Fiction?" article
See 0:36 when the expert 'Doctor' gives his opinion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP1bg1R5XQc
 
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=heDQ-TFicmA
Published on Oct 14, 2013
A general interview with ISU's Dr. Jeff Meldrum. The raw video was intended as a pilot for investors in a large production company on the East Coast.The questions are about what attracted Prof. Meldrum to the study of cryptids and what he is doing as far as ongoing research.
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This is Meldrum pitching the blimp project. Amazing fantasy.
 
I frequently allude to the Mormon connection (yes, I'm still calling them Mormons) as at least partially explanatory for Don Jeffrey's blimp-sized blind spot for bigfootses, but I don't have any specifics on the bigfoot–Mormon connection other than some vague sense that nephilim are bigfoots or something. Moments ago I had a breakthrough on this however, when I found a post from some dude on Facebook that completely out of the blue mentioned the story of "Apostle" David W. Patten. Apostle Patten claimed to have encountered the Biblical Cain while traveling one day through Tennessee:

Story of meeting Cain

Patten is reportedly the source of a story which has become a part of Mormon folklore. As related by Abraham O. Smoot after Patten's death, Patten says he encountered a very tall, hairy, dark-skinned man in Paris, Tennessee, who said that he was Cain. The account states that Cain, the son of Adam from the Bible, had earnestly sought death but was denied it, and that his mission was to destroy the souls of men.[1][4]:85 The recollection of Patten's story is quoted in Spencer W. Kimball's The Miracle of Forgiveness, a popular book within the LDS Church.[10]:127–128 In the 1980s, Patten's story was used by some Latter-day Saints to explain Bigfoot sightings in South Weber, Utah.[11]


I checked this dude's "About" section and there it was: Idaho State University alumnus!
 
Is Dr. Melba Ketchum (DVM) mormon? She might just be a garden variety fundamentalist. Don't remember.
 
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