Bigfoot

Bigfoot Introduction The Committee for incredulous Inquiry is an organization thats mission is to promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims. (CSI) Pseudosciences ar beliefs that claim to be science but do not meet the criteria of science. (Notes on Web unit 1 part 3) Pseudoscience in not ground on scientific literature or on scientific experiments that study been peer go offed. Coker 2001) It is based on soulfulness saying that they did an experiment and got a certain result and that result not being tested in order to see if it feces be duplicated therefore it is not falsifiable. (Coker 2001) There are many divers(prenominal) pseudosciences, astrology, palm reading, and crystal healing are some much super acidly known ones. Crypto fauna is one as well all of these bear be found on The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry website. (CSI) Cryptozoology is the field of operation of the unknown ani mal. (Michael Dennett Science and Footprints article) Materials and MethodsThe belief of the universe of discourse of Bigfoot is cyptozoology. When you google the word bigfoot you will get 8,400,000 hits. (google search). The trash has to be weeded step to the fore which can be done by using google scholars advance search options and specialise down the field in which bigfoot research and scientific peer-reviewed articles can be found. Most of the reliable tie in lead covert to the skeptical inquirer, which is a publication from The Committee of Skeptical Inquiry. Other resources used to permit this paper were found at one of two libraries located in two different counties.All of the different literature at these libraries that was on Bigfoot was found in the fiction section, so was determined to be trash. A huge red flag for trash was if they site was a . com site. There is a huge measure of . com trash on Bigfoot as indicated by my Google search. As Mr. Stewart stated . c om stands for commercial sites and it is known that commercial sites are used by anyone and everyone and are not peer-reviewed. Results Timeline The name Bigfoot came from the assert footprints of the alleged animal. (Radford 2002) J.Bord and Colin Brods The Bigfoot Casl criminal record states that Bigfoot sightings date back to the 1830s. Some belivers think that Bigfoot lives all over the United States. (Radford 2002) Evidence There are four types of raise that has been brought forth as Bigfoot deduction. (Radford 2002) They are eyewitness sightings, footprints, recordings, and somatic samples which simpler put means hair and/or derivation samples. (Radford 2002) There are numerous, reports of sightings, theories, and footprint casts from all over North America. Radford 2002) It is known that eyewitness testimony is the weakest puddle of evidence, like scientist, lawyers and judges want hard evidence to prove their case. (Radford 2002) The footprint tracks that have been clas sified as evidence to support Bigfoot believers have all varied in size, shape, and other factors that have been closely examined. (Radford 2002) How can there be such a difference and be from the same animal or species? The evidence contradicts itself. (Radford 2002) Ignoring evidence that conflicts is part of pseudoscience. Coker 2001) It is poor quality and most have been proven to be other animals or synthetic fibers. (Radford 2002) With so many gunshots fired at this creature where is the hard evidence. (Boston 2003) In Ben Radfords review of The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide, wrote by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe published in 1999 by Avon Books, He points out that the believers who wrote the book cannot explain why claims of Bigfoot being killed presented no bones or bodies as evidence. Radford 2000) The book also claims that eyewitnesses even admitted they could have misidentified another animal as Bigfoot. (Radford 2000) A short scud interpreted in 1967 by Roger Patterson and Bog Gimlin shows the alleged Bigfoot crossing a clearing. (Radford 2002) The question of it is a hoax or not is not important the important thing is the fact that the statement it cannot be a dissimulator claim is able to be false. (Radford 2002) Don Grieve who is an anatomist specializing in human gait has concluded that the alleged Bigfoot gait that was claimed couldnt have been make by a human in fact could have. Radford 2002) The existence of a large primate such as Bigfoot especially in North America is or so impossibility speaking, because the discovery of a new mouse is big news these days. stated by Dr. Richard W. Thorington, younger who in 1980 was the head primatologist in the Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the National Museum of Natural account in the Smithsonian Institution. (Wylie 1980) Money Some are doubters some believe, the rest of us just know, this was the guideword of the 2006 Bigfoot Rendezvous Conference. Ben Radford was a speaker at this event.He stated Enormous time money and energy have been spent trying to find Bigfoot. Today in 2006 we have more footprints than ever before. We have more photographs and videotapes and film footage than at any other time in history. The problem is not that we dont have enough evidence the problem is that that evidence is inconclusive at best. (Radford 2006) He also made it clear that skeptics do detailed research. (Radford 2006) Tom Biscardi is an explorer that travels looking for Bigfoot, he and his crew was feature on our own KWII news searching the Paris, TX. rea for Bigfoot. (Gotera 2007) Him and his team get paid to explore for Bigfoot, one week of exploring can cost around $70,000. 00. (Gotera 2007) Thomas Biscardi also had a webpage that you could subscribe. (Dennett 2006) Patterson made a profit off of his film and book as well as the organization he started. (Radford 2002) News about a Bigfoot demote generates money. (Dennett 2006) The Sci Fi Investigates is a television series that claims to investigate mysterious phenomena. (Radford 2007) It is for entertainment urposes and to make profits, even the cast that has no scientific credentials, has pointed out that eyewitness Bigfoot encounters are not explainable. (Radford 2007) A lot of the facts aired are based on anecdotes, as previously stated anecdotes are not scientifically testable. (Radford 2007) In one episode they try to make a convincing Bigfoot film, by making this what did they prove about Bigfoot, nothing. (Radford 2007) The show lacks skeptical investigators for a reason if it wanted them the producers would have hired them, the bottom line is profits. Radford 2007) Conclusion Science isnt based on our beliefs it is based on investigation and repetition of results, pseudoscience is based on belief without data or results that can be repeated or explained. (Coker 2001) Often times pseudoscience is favored by our spiritual beliefs or cultural beliefs, r eligion and cultural beliefs are not testable in the realm of science they do not follow natural law. (Coker 2001) Cryptozoology is based mostly on anecdotal evidence which is evidence that cannot be tested, or proven falsifiable, which is why it is pseudoscience. Radford 2002) The monstrous amount of bad quality evidence has not fall the popularity of the existence of Bigfoot. (Radford 2006) The search of Bigfoot for some people is what they pass their time doing it brings together people with a common interest. (Radford 2006) Bigfoot hobbyists enjoy the outdoors and the adventure of the possibility of seeing, hearing, or finding something to prove the existence. (Radford 2006) BACONS QUOTE Literature Cited Boston, Rob. 2003, Scenes from a Bigfoot Conference Internet. cited 2011 Feb 8 13. 4 addressable from http//www. csicop. rg/sb/show/scenes_from_a_bigfoot_conference Coker, Rory. 2001. Science and Pseudoscience Internet. cited 2011 abut 22 Available from http//www. quackwatch. org/01QuakeryRelatedTopics/pseudo. html Dennett, Michael. 2006, Experiments rolling wave Doubt on Bigfoot Evidence Internet. cited 2011 Feb. 8 16. 3 Available from http//www. csicop. org/sb/show/exeperiments_cast_doubt_on_bigfoot_evidence Dennett, Michael. 2006, The Bigfoot Legend Lives Internet. cited 2011 Feb. 8 16. 1 Available from http//www. csicop. org/sb/show/the_bigfoot_legend_lives Gotera, Daniel. 2007, The Hunt for Bigfoot Internet. cited 2011 butt 22 Available from http//www. kxii. com/home/headlines/11090741. html Radford, Ben. 2002, Bigfoot at 50 Evaluating a Half Century of Bigfoot Evidence Internet. cited 2011 March 22 26. 2 Available from http// http//www. csicop. org/sb/show/bigfoot_at_50_evaluating_a_half_century_of_bigfoot_evidence Radford, Ben. 2007, Sci Fi Investigates, Finds Only Pseudoscience Internet cited 2011 March 10 31. 2 Available from http//www. csicop. org/sb/show/sci_fi_investigates_finds_only_pseudoscience Radford, Ben. 2006, Among the Bigfooters Internet cited 2011 March 10Available from http//www. csicop. org/sb/show/among_the_bigfooters Radford, Ben. 2000, The flawed Guide to Bigfoot Internet cited 2011 March 22 24. 1 Available from http//www. csicop. org/sb/show/flawed_guide _to_bigfoot/ Stewart, Bruce. Notes on the Web-Unit One-Part 3 Pseudoscience A Cultural Pathogen Internet cited 2011 Jan. 15 Available from http//www. sciencethinking. org/zoology/pseudoscience. htm The Committee of Skepical Inquiry Website Internet cited 2011 March 20 Available from http//www. csicop. org/ Wylie, Kenneth. 1980, Bigfoot, New York (NY) The Viking Press pages 150-153