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Article on the CFZ and NGI

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The Overtake has a new article up titled "The 'Science' of Cryptozoology" that features interviews with CFZ founder Jon Downes and NGI director Colin Schneider. Colin discusses the state of cryptozoology at the moment and what can be done to make it a "real" science, and not a pseudoscience. The article can be found here . -Tyler Houck

Are "Bigfoot Deniers" Bad for the Field?

If you bring up the words "nonbeliever" or "skeptic" in most cryptozoology circles (though it seems Bigfoot in particular), you will be met with copious amounts of backlash. I recently saw something on this subject on the  Crypto Crew  website in a post entitled "The Bigfoot Deniers." In it, Crypto Crew founder/head Thomas Marcum went on a bit of a rank about those who will steadfastly deny that Bigfoot exists. He noted the many times he has seen people who don't think a gigantic, hair-covered man-thing walks the forests of North America have been on Facebook chat groups and the like and denied any possibility of Bigfoot existing. He quotes the commonly used "a hunter will say they are always in the woods and have never seen Bigfoot" and argues that, just because they haven't seen Bigfoot, that "doesn't make it any less real." Or does it? He then goes onto the common believer argument that "they [nonbelievers and such...