Now send me all the money you are going to waste looking for bigfoot.
Posted on 06/27/2007 5:15:20 AM PDT by Daffynition
Now send me all the money you are going to waste looking for bigfoot.
I've had my own problems with someone who claimed to be Bigfoot.
I don’t favor the bigfoot story one way or another...but...I do know that scientists, in general, and wildlife biologists, in particular, are pretty dogmatic and blind to evidence contrary to the dogma they’ve been taught. A couple of recent cases in my neck of the woods come to mind...
Up until a decade or so back, Minnesota DNR biologist denied the possibility of cougars roaming MN forests. Of course, locals and hunters had been reporting sightings, but the official view was: tut, tut, you ignorant yokels - let the professionals tell you what is what. Well, in the last decade, a cougar was killed by a car and one was shot in one of the river systems right in the Twin Cities metro.
Case two: Last year a man was killed and partially eaten by wild wolves. Other attacks have been documented in the last decade or so, as well. Of course, literature abounds with accounts by credible outdoor people, indians and pioneer types of just this thing, but it has been boiler plate dogma for environmentalists and wildlife biologists to dismiss such accounts as not credible (...not scientifically trained, don’cha know!). Despite reports of increase wolf predation and attacks on pets in semi-urban settings in wolf territory, nothing changed their little, well-trained, scientific minds.
Well, now that we actually have some bones to pick, the reality now bears out what was common (or pededstrian) knowlege before. The arrognace works in reverse, too. Remember Strix occidentalis? Spotted owl for the unwashed. ‘Scientists’ were telling us all that the animal couldn’t survive unless they have pristine wilderness. So, the courts gave them about 27,000 acres per mating pair (according to defective population surveys). Now we know of course that this information was bogus, but, what the heck, we only lost half a million primary and secondary forest products jobs - but the important thing is that science has done its job well!
These kinds of episodes smack of the same thing to me.
Dr. Grover Krantz, a scientist specializing in cryptozoology, believes Bigfoot is a "gigantopithecus," a branch of primitive man believed to have existed 3 million years ago.Update: GK died a few years ago; he didn't have a single idea for what Bigfoot is.
Good post. Grover Krantz made a similar comparison (Bigfeet to bears) in “Big Footprints”.
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