Without Nessie, tourism in the area would likely be eighty to ninety percent less. The only way that hotels survive in the region....is the tourist crowd to see a possible ‘creature’.
To make the scientists go away he needs to tie Nessie to climate change. Something like “the climate data suggests that Nessie will be impacted and pushed more often to the surface- suffering from both man-made environmental changes and the inevitable contact with humans.” A good many of them couldn’t have an imaginary sea monster derail their imaginary anthropogenic climate-change gravy train so they fake whatever they can to support both of them.