Cryptomundo Incorporated formed

[jerrywayne]

Not too much of a cheap shot, I hope....

Last year I went on a tour of Fouke Monster sites in and around Fouke Arkansas. It was a guided tour by the young fellow who had just published his Beast of Boggy Creek book. Maybe ten or a dozen of us drove from a crypto festival in Jefferson Texas to Fouke.

Once we met up at the Monster Mart, we had to wait and wait for the tour to begin. Two people had gotten lost on route to Fouke.

They finally showed up. Honest to goodness -- the lost were Woolheater and Loren.

If this was a piece of fiction or a novel, I thought to myself, it would have been a beautiful example of symbolism.

 

[William Parcher]

James Randi called out by Cryptomundo

James Randi: An Honest Liar

My own opinion is that what Randi and his followers have done is not skepticism, but rather debunking. Skepticism is healthy, debunking is agenda based and reeks of emotionalism.

We get a lot of flak from debunkers, but when you use facts to refute their debunking, they fall silent. I recently reviewed a book written by skeptics on the subject of cryptozoology which had a lot of good science in it, but was poor in terms of the arguments it presented against the viability of cryptids. The worst part was a lack of knowledge by the authors about the subject matter, because in this field we constantly update our files, discarding data that no longer works or fits. Skeptics don’t keep up with developments but revert back to old stuff we’ve long left behind. Also their own hypotheses were flawed beyond belief and the amount of strawman building was unbelievable.

 

[EHocking]

James Randi: An Honest Liar

The author really needs to find a dictionary and look up the word word irony.

 

[Gilbert Syndrome]

Cryptomundo is like an even less credible online version of Weekly World News, I've read more interesting scribble on bathroom walls in pubs where people talk less bollocks and drink less booze than even half of those nutty buggers who unashamedly refer to themselves as "Cryptomundians."

 

[snoop_doxie]

The worst part was a lack of knowledge by the authors about the subject matter, because in this field we constantly update our files, discarding data that no longer works or fits.

There ya go. Data that no longer "works" or "fits" gets discarded in Bigfootland.

Skeptics don’t keep up with developments but revert back to old stuff we’ve long left behind.

Where are the developments? Yeah, that old stuff you have left behind, like evidence or
critical thinking. Left behind on the starting line. It is not hard to keep up with no movement.