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British scientist 'solves' mystery of Himalayan yetis
- api 13y agoOne one hand you could call this "debunking." On the other hand if it's true it demonstrates that many of the people who claimed to see Yetis were not stoned, drunk, hallucinating, making things up, or misidentifying something completely ordinary. They really did in fact see something that looked very strange to them. That's one of my pet peeves with some skeptics. People are not that stupid. I do believe many people who claim to have seen UFOs, for example. I don't necessarily think they're aliens or whatever, but I do believe people have seen very odd things in the sky that defy easy explanation.
- huxley 13y agoIt is easy to misidentify something ordinary when it is somewhere you don't expect it: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lone-cow-hikes-blomidon-provincial-park-for-several-weeks-1.2075296 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lone-cow-hikes-blo... For a few weeks, Park officers were getting calls about a black bear in Blomidon Provincial Park but it turns out that what the people saw was an escaped cow. It's not that those people were necessarily stupid (though some might be), but it doesn't mean they've seen anything peculiar just that they believed they had.