I wasn’t just picking on your comments. I was referring to the basic and oft-repeated mantra of Bigfoot believers who say, “I’ve never found any bear bones, either therefore OMG Bigfoot!” or some variation of this.

As you see, Barackman, of Finding Bigfoot (which does more to push Cryptozoology to the fringe than any hoaxer will ever do), does exactly that above. The problem is that people DO find the bones of bears and other predators–hunters and others have come on Bigfoot forums and podcasts to confirm this over and over.

So the whole argument is false and unhelpful. Just because YOU haven’t found bear bones does not mean that you can extrapolate that same experience to 5+ billion other people.

You mention how Bigfoot is rare. Hmm…that does not seem to be the claim made by enthusiasts. No, the claim is that Bigfeet are found from Florida to Washington State (and, even more dubiously, most everywhere else in the world, too!). This is the most obvious sign that Bigfoot is just a cultural myth.

A breeding population that would sustain itself over such a large area would have to be enormous. This is what breaks (at least for me) any chance that Bigfoot is a real creature.

That Bigfooters have to make special pleadings for their creature (he’s mystically elusive, etc.); that EVERY type of Bigfoot evidence is lousy; that many of those in the forefront of the “field” are, at best, silly hucksters; AND that the basic hypothesis (of continental coverage) collapses under its own grandiose weight is what Bigfooters ought to be addressing.

But they rarely do. Instead much time is spent repeating false and worthless arguments like Barackman does above.

I realize that skeptical discussion is seen as suspect by believers. Skeptics have some agenda to hide Bigfoot. But hey, a great way to fight our evil agenda is find some good evidence, to expose and vilify the hucksters (like the subject of this post) and to come up with a believable hypothesis that does not rely upon special pleading.

After 55 years, this doesn’t seem like too much to ask.

Best

(Fossils are irrelevant. The latest scientific estimate is that we have fossils for only 5% of extinct primates.)

Not only are most remains cleaned up toot sweet, but people have found very anomalous bones that for various reasons all attributable to our being human haven’t gotten to scientific referees for classification.

(Then there’s the Minaret Skull, likely not the only such case.)

It’s a useless cag in the face of a large body of consistent evidence on which it is long past time for the scientific mainstream to get engaged.

“I have only found deer bones once so it makes sense that no one on earth has ever found Bigfoot bones ever.”

…demonstrates some of the fine thinking that keeps Squatchers at forefront of science and not not a topic of laughter.

Excelsior!

So to claim that the finding of bones is rare is baloney. However, in the case of a giant hairy human, I would think that they do not want their remains found. So who knows what they do to prevent it. Perhaps they go to the most remote place they can find and expire, or cover themselves with rocks or practice some form of burial. This is a big unknown I agree.

I enjoy watching you on TV Cliff – keep searching.