Robert Lindsay Wants You To Stop Calling Bigfoot an Ape

Robert Lindsay has a new post up about Dr. Melba Ketchum's press "embargo." It's an interesting read if you're interested in learning about press embargoes and how they relate to the release of an article in a peer-reviewed journal.

In the post, Lindsay raises an issue with the old guards of the Bigfoot community and their reference to Bigfoot being an ape rather than a hominid. Lindsay believes that the Bigfoot-Giganto Theory will "soon die a hard death."

"It’s always been one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the Bigfoots making any sense. For one, there are no New World apes. No New World apes, no Bigfoot. Real simple," wrote Lindsay.

Read the snippet below:

Refusal to drop the Bigfoot is an ape meme. You would think that with all the evidence we have gathered that the Bigfoots are hominids, people would start dropping the Bigfoot is an ape thing.

Matt Moneymaker of all people was on TV recently insisting that Bigfoots are apes. Tim Fasano was on cable TV saying much the same thing, but at least Fasano had some data to back up his theory. Facebook Find Bigfoot is deeply invested in the Bigfoot-ape thing, and that’s one reason why they refuse to cover the Ketchum DNA study.

Jeff Meldrum has bought deep into the ape thing. In a recent comment, he continued to insist that they are apes or possibly that they are somewhere along the missing link edge of the spectrum as in a Sebida or Habilis type.

John Bindernagel, author of a book promoting the ape line, continues to peddle that theory in interviews. However, we know that he was flown to Crittenden, Kentucky by Erickson, and there Bindernagel saw his first Bigfoot with his own eyes. At that time, Bindernagel stated that he was re-evaluating his ape theory, and he now that, after seeing them, they they were hominids.

The ape meme has been around forever, and it’s going to die a hard death. But it’s always been one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the Bigfoots making any sense. For one, there are no New World apes. No New World apes, no Bigfoot. Real simple.

But the theory always had the worst and stupidest of problems. It’s amazing no one saw them. How many bipedal apes are there? Zero. Zero other than hominids that is. You see a bipedal ape other than Oliver, and what is it? It’s a hominid. Duh. This is so rock dumb that you would think these guys would have thought of this.

For all their objectivity, scientists are subject to human emotions (read subjectivity) like all the rest of us. Most folks love to keep their pet theories and pet views of the world around as long as possible. The world is weird enough without getting up every morning and finding everything you believed turned upside down. We need to make sense out of this mess, and we don’t like to be wrong. And when we are wrong, we don’t like to admit it. We dig in our heels.

And so it is in the “objective” sciences, which can never be fully objective as long as subjective humans are engaging in them.

You can read the full article at Robert Lindsay's blog.

Robert Lindsay mentioned Oliver. Oliver the chimpanzee was once believed to be the "missing link". After years of being exploited as a curiosity, Oliver finally found sanctuary at Primarily Primates.