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Professor: Bigfoot exists, and science should care

If one drinks enough one can see pretty much anything he/she wishes to or fears. Depends on whether they are a happy drunk (on very rare occasions I have been one) or a sad/remorseful/fearful drunk (I have never been that).
 
True.
I'm a sexy, lady-killer, Saturday Night Fever dancing-fiend drunk.

Problem is that my friends and family seem to black out when I drink and never recall these marvellous traits.
 
Pterodactyl said:
I'm starting to lose track of all the academics who've now come out of the bigfoot research closet. Whether this should be taken to mean that science is finally paying proper attention to the subject, or merely that the pitifully-gullible can still hold down full-time professorships, is open to interpretation I guess. But one thing is for sure... these people are not coming to the conclusion that bigfoot is real based on any careful, objective review of the available evidence.

The statement "Science should care" really in this context just means "Science should abandon its stringent demand for evidence and instead just take peoples' word for it." and that's exactly what these professors are doing. Buying anecdotes and selling their credibility.

It is disturbing that a genuinely curious student could now google up various journals (RHI, Denovo, NM Museum of Natl. History, etc. ), academic institutions (ISU, Humboldt State), professors (Meldrum, et al.) and complete a research paper coming to the conclusion that this might have some validity.

It's sort of like Trump. The more crap gets debunked, the stronger the belief in the phenomenon grows. How do you win?
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you dont beat em--you join them! as Mike said, Humboldt has the best pot around...so put on the suit!
 
William Parcher said:
Then you should also have no problem with scientists looking for living Tyrannosaurs. We don't really know if they are extinct unless we look literally everywhere and intensively for them.

Your idea has a patina of virtue but it is actually absurd. You see, there were many scientists combing the swamps of Arkansas recently and they were searching for living Ivory-billed woodpeckers. They were not looking for Tyrannosaurs. If you want to find out if T-Rex is extinct you have to start from Square One and go back to those same swamps with a scientist team who is looking for Tyrannosaurs. But then don't expect those guys to say anything if they happen to see Ivory-bills because their job is to only confirm Tyrannosaurs.
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Once, years ago, I watched a documentary about the search for the giant squid. Quite interesting really. The next show was about a group of Scandinavian scientists searching for a sea monster; I leaned over to my wife and said, in my best mock-Swedish accent, "Oh, Olaf, I t'ought I found ze sea moonster, but eet was yust another fookin' giant skvid."
 
jhunter1163 said:
Once, years ago, I watched a documentary about the search for the giant squid. Quite interesting really. The next show was about a group of Scandinavian scientists searching for a sea monster; I leaned over to my wife and said, in my best mock-Swedish accent, "Oh, Olaf, I t'ought I found ze sea moonster, but eet was yust another fookin' giant skvid."
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And she let you live?

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