Re: Update on the photos (was "Bigfoot photos: Real or Fake?")

On Oct 29, 10:53 pm, Bryan Olson <fakeaddr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
TeaWrecks wrote:
"mike3" wrote:
Bryan Olson wrote:
I've heard from zero of these "experts". You?
[...]
You think
maybe they made it all up and never contacted _any_
"experts" at all, so there would be no "experts" to be
wrong?

Sadly, that is all too frequently the case... With no
'experts' named, then there is no source to verify.
Convenient, innit?

Right; the point is that we cannot tell who these
experts are and what they actually say. Mike3's
writing about how the site may be lying in one way
or another strike me as too harsh.

Well, maybe it was, but I don't know what they
were thinking. Furthermore, I was not actually
accusing them of lying, I was asking you
a question about what you were thinking about
them -- if *you* *thought* they were lying. See?:

"Ahhhhhh... *so you think* that even though their
"experts" might have said something, they might
be _lying_ about precisely _what_ they said (or
left something out, or ... you know)*?*"

But obviously the answer to that question is no,
after having read this post that I am responding to
right here, and I'll accept that.

That could be
the case, but at this point I see no evidence of
outright and deliberate dishonesty. Never attribute
to malice what can be adequately explained by
stupidity [1].


So what exactly do you think they slipped up
on, then?

On the other hand, I would suggest at least a kind
of willful ignorance in the Bigfoot fan site's
insistence that the third photo shows a creature
bent over and smelling the ground. Nonsense. I can
see what they're thinking, but they're just fooling
themselves.


So then what does the photograph show? If it's not
bent over and smelling the ground, what is it doing,
anyway? I'm willing, unlike those people may be, to
admit it might not be doing that. I want to learn
something here, and I came here for that reason.

What experts say is not what idiots say experts s
ay [2]. Not even when the idiots are honest and
well-intentioned.

--Bryan

[1] Hanlon's razor; seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor.
[2] Bryan's snipper; see this discussion.

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