QUOTE(wudewasa @ May 27 2007, 01:59 PM)

Granted, Penn and Teller's approach to "exposing" the myth of bigfoot is over the top, and has as much spin as anything Michael Moore puts out, but they do have several good points about bigfoot research:
1) The best "evidence" for bigfoot so far are blurry photos, videos and plaster casts of foot prints.
That "best evidence" is enough to warrant a serious, funded search.
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2) It's easy to make a video of fleeting images of sasquatch that is convincing to most people who have not researched bipedalism, and want to believe that bigfoot exists without irrefutable evidence (a body).
There is plenty of evidence to support a bipedal ape. There is fossil evidence (yeah, maybe not in the New World, but it is out there), there is video evidence (the 1967 Patterson film has still not been shown to be a hoax), and there is plenty of footprint evidence (despite the Wallace distraction).
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3) When power/money are involved, objectivity is often replaced by subjective forces, and it is important to uphold the discipline of science in the face of fame, lest critical thinking be contaminated by avarice.
Power is involved now. Money is not.
The "discipline of science" with respect to sasquatchery hasn't yet been tested, because today's science hasn't yet been involved in the phenomenon.
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This show tries to get folks to think for themselves, and exposes extremists through insulting humor.
Bullspit. The Penn and Teller show
is extremism.
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Essentially, it's entertainment with a bit of truth attached.
There's not truth attached at all, and I don't find it entertaining.