Ok, what's your plan?
WT
PS: My wife got conned by a production company doing work for the Discovery
Channel several years ago, thinking they were doing legitimate scientific
journalism, and I got conned into shooting some video for them (for which I
never got a cent). Never since and never again. That's our
contribution--saying no to the production companies' requests for interviews
and footage. Y'all may have noticed how they (used to) start off with some
legitimate scientists sincerely believing that they were serving legitimate
science education, but ended up being cut into a pseudoscience film. Some
have repeated the error and some have refused to touch any kind of
"educational" filmmaking, as the scientist has no control over the final
outcome. How many people on this list have gotten "taken" by these
smooth-talking production companies and have consented to be interviewed for
what turned out to be something that they would never have consented to be a
part of, had they known what the outcome would be in advance?
----- Original Message -----
From: "malcolm McCallum" <malcolm.mccal...@herpconbio.org>
To: <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Bigfoot footage in TX (gag me).
Look, these folks are posing as researchers, sucking up soft money
(yes, they are) to do this stuff, getting publicity on such channels
as Discovery. Now, when a bunch of yahoo charlatans start doing this
sort of thing it degrades science by confusing the public about what
is and is not science, who is and is not doing science, and what is
and is not credible evidence. When you degrade science in this manner
it also interferes with all aspects of society because now logic is
overcome with nonsense and the more nonsense is promoted as logic, the
more people who ultimately start to think in illogical ways leading to
poor decisions in all aspects of life, including politics and cast
votes. When illogical paths are taken in choosing candidates and
casting votes, we end up with poor candidates who approve non-science
and anti-science bills.
THese little things do matter. They are a virus, a plague on society
that is every bit as damaging to its inner workings as political
corruption. They must be stomped out and scientists should come out
in force and do so by very clearly, adamantly, directly and bluntly
discounting their claims as junk (not junk science) and charlatanism.
Malcolm
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Wayne Tyson <landr...@cox.net> wrote:
Malcolm and Ecolog,
Ignore them? (They want publicity.)
When I was in the Forest Service in Northern California in the late
fifties
and early sixties (I've forgotten just when all the bigfoot hoopla at the
Hoopa Reservation took place), my boss said the knew the guy who
"discovered" the prints, and he said he was just the kind of nutcase that
would come up with that kind of thing.
Maybe the Texans are frustrated snipe-hunters?
WT
----- Original Message ----- From: "malcolm McCallum"
<malcolm.mccal...@herpconbio.org>
To: <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 6:11 PM
Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Bigfoot footage in TX (gag me).
I am very familiar with the Texas Bigfoot society folks having got in
a tuff with them back in the early part of the decade. They are total
charlatans, see this video of a bigfoot from the twitter of Melba
Ketchum.
Is there anything we can do to discredit these folks with the public?
We really need to address this and make it obvious they are literally
making stuff up!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khHSX3ZYaKI
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Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
School of Biological Sciences
University of Missouri at Kansas City
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Herpetological Conservation and Biology
"Peer pressure is designed to contain anyone with a sense of drive" -
Allan Nation
1880's: "There's lots of good fish in the sea" W.S. Gilbert
1990's: Many fish stocks depleted due to overfishing, habitat loss,
and pollution.
2000: Marine reserves, ecosystem restoration, and pollution reduction
MAY help restore populations.
2022: Soylent Green is People!
The Seven Blunders of the World (Mohandas Gandhi)
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Politics w/o principle
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