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A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era

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Re: A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era

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Supposedly exposes the Patterson-Gimlin film as a hoax, which is a big deal in the Bigfoot community.

Is it? Because plenty of other hoax-based bullshit, like Flat Earth Conspiracy Theorists and those who believe that the Earth is only 6,000 years old continue on in their bubbles regardless of how much evidence is provided to the contrary.

There’s no possible evidence against so called “last Thursdayism”, so you are certainly misrepresenting the state of affairs.

Re: A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era

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Supposedly exposes the Patterson-Gimlin film as a hoax, which is a big deal in the Bigfoot community.

Is it? Because plenty of other hoax-based bullshit, like Flat Earth Conspiracy Theorists and those who believe that the Earth is only 6,000 years old continue on in their bubbles regardless of how much evidence is provided to the contrary.

I've always assumed that committed conspiracy theorists are just trolls rolling with it (because nobody could be so stupid as to actually believe in the conspiracy's premise). So no amount of evidence is going to "convince" them, because they already know the truth, and don't care.

But then perhaps over time, they somehow attracted people who genuinely are that stupid, and uncritically believe? That demographic is obviously going to be too stupid to critically assess any new evidence either.

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There's a Bigfoot trap in Oregon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot_trap I wonder if it gets a mention? It does get a mention in the recent Bruce Campbell movie https://www.ernieandemma.com/ - which looks to be even more poignant with his recent cancer diagnosis :-(

Obviously Bigfoot is too smart to fall for those traps

> The trap's door has been bolted open since 1980 for visitor safety.

"visitor safety" indeed!

Re: A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era

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What does bigfoot have to do with conspiracy? Doesn't bigfoot qualify as folklore/urban legend/pseudoscience/hoax/mythology? Is there widespread belief the government is actively covering up its existence for some reason?

Nothing in the linked story explained it. Did someone make a whole documentary and couldn't get the most basic info right? Or did the reporter mangle the article write-up?

Re: A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era

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Is it? Because plenty of other hoax-based bullshit, like Flat Earth Conspiracy Theorists and those who believe that the Earth is only 6,000 years old continue on in their bubbles regardless of how much evidence is provided to the contrary.

There’s no possible evidence against so called “last Thursdayism”, so you are certainly misrepresenting the state of affairs.

There's nothing wrong with Last Thursdayism. It's unfalsifiable. You're welcome to hold it.

Most people find that it's more complicated to work with, since it requires a vastly more complicated set of initial conditions. But if you find that it works for you it isn't actually wrong.

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IMO, that was done years ago. If you look up that film stabilized [1], it becomes really apparent that it's just a guy in a ape costume. The shaky camera is the only thing that makes it harder to determine what's going on. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPlRr_OfxZI

Read the comments on that video to see how many conclude the opposite!

Is the number of people high enough to make them right?

For example if one doctor says I have cancer but 100 electricians say I don't I'm cancer free

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What does bigfoot have to do with conspiracy? Doesn't bigfoot qualify as folklore/urban legend/pseudoscience/hoax/mythology? Is there widespread belief the government is actively covering up its existence for some reason? Nothing in the linked story explained it. Did someone make a whole documentary and couldn't get the most basic info right? Or did the reporter mangle the article write-up?

Cryptozoology is pretty big in the conspiracy mediascape.

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I used to look down on conspiracy theories, now I think many are actually true, or are mixed with truth. Its really unlikely that a theory circulates widely but has no basis in reality

They're all on a spectrum between flat earth and Epstein didn't off himself, with some clustering at either end
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