Showing posts with label fraud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fraud. Show all posts

Monday, June 2, 2014

Why is Dr. Jeff Meldrum a Fraud? The Bigfoot community doesn't want to hear the truth


                                   BIGFOOT + Meldrum = MONEY MAKING SCAM


Meldrum’s  university colleagues and scientists in his own field—that same collection does not constitute valid evidence, and Meldrum’s examination of it is pseudoscientific: belief shrouded in the language of scientific rigor and analysis. “Even if you have a million pieces of evidence, if all the evidence is inconclusive, you can’t count it all up to make something conclusive,” says David J. Daegling, an anthropologist at the University of Florida who has critiqued Meldrum and the Bigfoot quest in the Skeptical Inquirer and is the author of Bigfoot Exposed (AltaMira, 2004).

Dr. Meldrum is a "faith-based" "pseudo-scientist" who accepts only "evidence" that tends to support his ideas. His laughable mis-interpretation of the "Skookum cast" is a good example. Comparing his claims to actual scientific advances is fallacious; he uses hoaxed/fraudulent data, and substitutes circular reasoning for proof. Meldrum is worse than your "Bafoons" because he masquerades as a scientist who seeks the truth; in reality, he is not a truth seeker; like the creationists and the global-warming deniers, he seeks only to validate his beliefs.


Dr. Meldrum misinforms the Michiganders
Dr. Meldrum misinforms the Michiganders about the height of Patterson’s “bigfoot”
Over the Line, Smokey! has previously created a months-long post on Dr. Melba Ketchum’s excellent “bigfoot science” adventures. We have now been informed of an interesting fiasco involving the other principal proponent of “bigfoot science”, Dr. Jeff Meldrum, now full