Article on the CFZ and NGI



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

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