The show finds pro Sasquatch experts such as Lauren Coleman a “renowned cryptozoologist." The term “renowned cryptozoologist” is troublesome. If Coleman was truly renowned he would have to find something and he would become an orthodox zoologist. But today you can get for famous for repeatedly failing to prove the right hypothesis. The country is full of educrats doggedly trying to establish that the black-white IQ gap is not inherent and can be bridged by innovative pedagogy. Indeed renowned cryptozoologists are in the highly esteemed company of Geoffrey Canada and Michelle Rhee. We all await the day when Sasquatch will swim into New York harbor and the KIPP academies will close the gap.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
The Age of the Renowned Cryptozoologist
History Channel’s Monsterquest is one of the most thought provoking shows on TV. Each episode begins with a description of a putative monster from and “experts” in the field, say the swimming Sasquatch of Prince Edward Island. Then the episodes documents a well financed aunt in the wilderness to find scientifically in convertible evidence of the creature’s existence. Despite the inclusion of drone aircraft, night vision equipment and ground penetrating radar the investigators fail to find the swimming Sasquatch. But does repeatedly failing to find the Sasquatch support its non-existence or do we just need to wait for the falsification of the no Sasquatch hypothesis? What would Karl Popper say?
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They once did an episode on ghosts, but instead of being about the ghosts of monsters, which would have been great, it was about ghosts of humans, which no normal person categorizes as monsters.
The most logical explanation for Bigfoot is that something that in no way resembles a Bigfoot (perhaps not even a living thing) induces the human brain to see a Bigfoot, as a means of camouflage.
A heard cultural anthropologist speculate that Giganthropithicus that followed humans across the Bering strait.
I expect that a physical anthropologist will soon that humans interbred with giganthropithicus. My ex-wife will not be surprised.
If a Giganthropithicus were following me, I would cross the Bering Strait too.
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