She asked that it be taken down at Cryptomundo.

Thanks to Loren for a most enlightening and helpful post.

I would simply add that, the person we should be most critical of is ourselves, and our *own* belief system.

One should constantly ask “why do I believe what I believe in?”.

We have a saying, here in Mexico: El buen juez por su casa empieza (the good judge begins with his own house).

Except to say: well, OK, we’ll add this to the pile of evidence and see what we have. And sometimes you don’t even do that.

Personal proof and scientific proof are two different things. If I saw a sasquatch tomorrow, the question would be settled for me.

I’d have to understand though that it might take a while for the rest of the world to catch up.

There is a limit to credulity. I doubt I would sound off the “go investigate” alarms if told someone saw Bigfoot riding a tricycle with a propeller beanie on his head riding down the middle of Main Street. I would have thw same reaction to the secretly recorded tapes of Loren, Craig, George Bush, Barack Obama, and the ghost of Tom Slick conspiring to create the next Bigfoot video. A certain level of common sense is needed in all this. Loren’s words on critical thinking should be taken to heart.

Of course it is possible there is something of interest going on with this Mike guy. I doubt it, but the information we have been given is not at all conducive to a rational approach to the problem. By far the worst thing about this whole mess would be the way Mike’s experiences have been exploited for some cheap thrills and some attention by Lamphere. If in fact Mike is something other than a poor old guy who is losing his grip on reality, the well has been poisoned and Mike has been the victim of exploitation.