Why the Continued Interest in Bigfoot on This Forum

Way too many posts to go though in detail so apologies if already covered but I remember an interview on the SGU where the question was asked why go to the trouble of debunking something that was debunked decades ago and is obviously lame? The answer the interviewee gave was along the lines that there is a constant influx of new and upcoming skeptics and these issues are important to show what skepticism is, how proper scientific methodology works and to prevent the various forms of magical thinking to come back in significant numbers. Basically the older topics were useful for training and educating and as a bridge/wedge - start with bigfoot/nessie/UFO and end with people's own particular sacred cows - showing how the same principles apply.
 
....and as long as MonsterQuest keeps airing half-truths and blatant lies the skeptics need to keep setting the record straight.
 
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makaya325 said:
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I very much doubt that, since none of the links supports your assertion that, "I know for a fact that Wildlife Groups/conservationists spend day in and day out, scanning a specific area for a specific species, and having a pretty high success rate."?

One is a booklet for identifying caterpillars in the PNW and the other is a request for the public to report sightings of introduced snail species.

About as relevant as your first link on surveying techniques as supporting evidence for your assertion.

Enough. Until the next uninformed post by you, I guess.
 
Akhenaten said:
:) I like this Sweaty.
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Me too...
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It's almost as much fun
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as arguing over Bigfoot's existence......which I plan on getting back to doing, pretty soon...btw.
 
One warning folks - either get back to discussing the topic of the thread i.e. "Why the Continued Interest in Bigfoot on This Forum", or I'll close the thread. There are plenty of other threads discussing the pros and cons of evidence as to whether Bigfoot exists or not and has been spotted or not.
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William Parcher said:
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Exellent! Will bipedalist find true love in North Carolina? Will that love be 9 x 6 ft and bipedal or will it be smaller, have a great big ol' tale, and run about on all fours?

So who want an Abe?

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Kit,

You can't forget the Bigfoot with flashlight beam eyes that Bipedalist claims to have seen.
 
I got to agree there, I think I said it before.

We are finding new stuff all the time. 1000's of species a year.
Mostly marine life.

Ya know, we still have some remote jungle and stuff that has not had naturalist come and catalog everything.

This is the premise for the crazy theories kent hovind has.

I still think bigfoot is bunk though.
 
WGBH said:
Kit,

You can't forget the Bigfoot with flashlight beam eyes that Bipedalist claims to have seen.
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Crazy flashlight-like eyeshine like that the American Bigfoot Society thinks they might have encountered in Ohio's Salt Fork State Park or beams of light iridescently shining out like Astro Boy or something else?
 
Bigfoot Fever: Bigfoot and the Skeptibunkers


Trickster's Realm by Regan Lee...


On what is probably the most famous (or infamous) "skeptic" forums,-- the JREF (James Randi Educational Forum) -- you can find threads about UFOs, Bigfoot, psychics; anything paranormal or Fortean, it's there. A favorite of theirs seems to be Bigfoot.

I find this fascinating, for they have not just one, or two, or even three, threads about Bigfoot. They have, at last count, twenty-seven separate threads concerning Bigfoot! I know!

What fascinates me is why something that they don't believe exists would merit twenty-seven different threads?

They must love to hear themselves talk, as well as argue. Now and then some brave Bigfoot "believer" will engage in what they assume will be a debate (the poor dear) and soon find him or herself in an endless loop of bizarro world skepti -tactics. But that's okay, and to be expected, that's what they do. I just didn't realize they'd do it so much.

What do they hope to achieve? They're not going to convince anyone; they're preaching to the choir. At some point you just have to stop. But Bigfoot is on their skepti little brains, big time.
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Frame 352 - Paranormalbigfoot.blogspot. Regan Lee's blog.

Well, they're still at it at the JREF message boards; link after link after link after. . . about Bigfoot. I stopped counting long ago, there were so many and a girl has other things to do after all! But I think the count a few months ago, when I stopped keeping track, was close to forty separate threads about Bigfoot. For something they are so damn sure doesn't exist, they sure do go on about it!
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