In this context the fact that he has nothing tangible to say or show becomes irrelevant. Sad…

Isn’t it funny how, when the members of this board engage Benjamin Radford in serious discussion about the heart of his argument, he just – poof! – disappears?

And then reappears down the line, to sow just a bit more denialism for the ones who just NEED TO BELIEVE Bigfoot is all crap, and have no interest in finding out one way or the other?

Just noting, that’s all.

Snake oil. Don’t read the bottle, a taste will tell you.

Guys like this exist on each side of the sas question. And their goal is to sell material to people who – I hear the phrase too often – WANT TO BELIEVE a particular angle on the story. They actually have a goal, unstated, of course, of keeping the animal a mystery. Because their angle will dry up if it’s ever confirmed; their “techniques,” “qualifications” and arguments will stand in sharp relief next to those of the folks who really did heavy lifting.

When they find a hand in a Wal-Mart dumpster, or take a suit shoot outside the home of a UFOer in Secaucus, NJ, and trumpet same to the media, two things happen. Serious scientists experience flesh creep, and back away. Serious Bigfooters, knowing they will be tarred with this brush, either keep silent (it’s a distraction) or yell “hooey” (somebody has to say something; but to the Pro, it’s more publicity). And the Skeptical Inquirer, for a theoretical example of the Professionals on the other side of the question, buys, scans, searches and whatever anything they can of this to take on tour as their Shining Examples of the Sasquatch Field in Disarray – as if incompetence among the searchers is an argument against the animal.

And the True Believers eat it up. They are CONVINCED of the connections among the sas, Pyramid Power, and UFOs; they KNOW Bigfoot and Elvis stepped out of that glowing ball over by Haley Place, they SAW IT; they feel talked down to by scientists; and the Professional becomes their champion. And the denialists, convinced that the world is only sane if Bigfoot doesn’t exist, can continue to cling to their belief – they really WANT TO BELIEVE – that if you haven’t seen one, you are a nut (rather than a member of a very privileged society that knows something you don’t about reality).

Is it, or is it not, cool, how one hand washes the other on this? Isn’t it something, the way democracy and the free market use something that may not even exist for profit?

Don’t ya just gotta admire it a little?

OK, BE that way.

Do we have a review of the second screening yet?

Think there’s a village somewhere, missing him greatly!