I have another site that is devoted to my interest in crytozoological mysteries. On this site, I post my musings and article links for people who have much the same interest. My brother and my mom also contribute useful and interesting items. It's a completely amateur site. We aren't trying to sell you a bill of goods based on our so-called 'expertise'. Saying that to say this...
We often check out other sites. They are deplorable. They are hack sites that float any ridiculous item as a mystery (that they'll be sure to include in their next book!). Many of the sites (and one in particular that shall remain nameless due to litigious hair trigger on the part of the blog owner - he's got bills to pay!!) are almost whoreish in their attempts to sell you a book. One of the more digusting sites had a unseemly donations request that made me want to scream, "Go get a job!!" The money plea seemed to hinge on the fact that the internet, the cryptozoological world and possibly the sun would cease to exist if this over promoted hack didn't get money from you. What a scam!
1. If you don't have a legitimate mystery posting...don't!
2. If you have to beg people for money, go get a job! We are not obligated to support you.
3. If you have to troll the internet for similar sites to post message promoting your own site, you look like a weasel.
4. Just because the dumb ass media keeps interviewing you doesn't mean we care what you have to say.
5. Have something to say. Be prepared to support it.
6. If you are going to write books on subjects that involve serious scientific study, please don't get mad when we question your ability to have anything to say. You community college degree in literature or drama doesn't really count as a conducive background to scientific research.
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You have certainly hit the nail on the head here. It is amazing sometimes how touchy these "researchers" can be and in that response they reveal how insecure they are. Science is not perfect and is subject to its own biases, prejudices, and short-sightedness. It is, however, a language spoken across borders and continents allowing a hugely diverse community to really investigate and find truths based on supporting evidences. When that is absent it all boils down to an issue of faith...what you "believe"...or what you simply wish were true. All who can acknowledge the possibility that somethings remain yet to be discovered need to keep pushing the others until they raise the bar of their own ideas and work.
HAHA...
Thank you!
You nailed it. I could not help but visualize Loren Coleman when I read this.
not sure if thats what your intent was but thats who I thought of specifically.
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