Watch Dr. John Bindernagel Talk To Young People About Sasquatch At The Ontario Sasquatch Conference, May 13, 2012
The one thing we can never get enough of around here is biologist / sasquatch researcher, Dr. John Bindernagel. In this video from The Ontario Sasquatch Conference dated May 13, 2012, Dr. Bindernagel sits down with "the next generation of researchers" to talk about the existence of sasquatch. Bindernagel tells the young people that evidence such as eyewitness accounts, drawings, and footprint casts suggests to him that sasquatch exists as a North American mammal.
Other topics include the PGF, Sasquatch Behavior and his second book "The Discovery Of The Sasquatch".
Watch below:
I can say this with no hesitation- if its one thing Jack loves its talking about Sasquatch with young people. People often forget that Jack is a college professor and the most popular at his school. His classes always have a long waiting list and every student he has had gives him great reviews.
ReplyDeleteI just got off the phone with Jack and he said "well you know it is always wonderful when you can introduce the topic of Bigfoot or Sasquatch, or any topic within the field of biology to young people, such young people who have not yet developed a passion for the field, and you by introducing them to the topic, sparks a general interest in said topic".
Jack, who we know is an expert on Sasquatch, has yet to see a Sasquatch in person?
DeleteTimmy have you ever seen a gladiator movie? Or a grown man naked. Speaking of sasquatch of course. Roger roger.
ReplyDeleteMust be sad, him being so old and well educated, yet he's wated so much time searching for an imaginary giant ape because of idiots like Ketchum, Smeja, ad nauseum.
ReplyDeleteYea poor guy. Hopefully the DNA paper gets shown for what it is rather than staying as coming soon for ever. Maybe people will realise bigfoot is a myth.
DeleteReally? wow one of the more uneducated comments I've read here.
DeleteDr BINDERNAGEL B.S.A., MS, Ph.D is an accomplished wildlife biologist. His work is decades old and is based on a scientific model. Maybe learn a little more about this Canadian legend and read some of his research; I can almost guarantee the work will astonish you, and may be even too much for you to understand. It is is a serious comment and challenge to you...
Bigfoot's only a myth in the minds of trolls these people like to block out things they don't like.
DeleteStill a poor reply 11:36 PM "Annie on a mouse" and waiting for some intelligence responses.....and waiting ;) ...I suspect more name calling from you....and then more waiting for an intelligent response....and waiting...at least show some research that the things dont exist ....Read BINDERNAGLE'S books, quote the parts you disagree with...back up your argument...name calling is for the unintelligent, and the trolls ;)
Deletehe seems like a really nice guy , a great educator. to the negative comments above, he has reasoned arguments to validate the cliam that SQ is real. if it a hoax the evidence that is presented is very consistent and fit a model for biological reality. it is nice to see a person espically a PHD be so open to the evidence. i would like to thank the man for all the time that he has dedicated to this subject
ReplyDeleteFor some lolz check out the latest video on that YouTube channel "trackersthename". He shows john where he filmed a family of bigfoots hanging out in a fallen down tree at close range. Yes a family. He won't show the video though - classic bigfooting BS.
ReplyDeleteWTH? He won't share it (yet), but did he show Dr John the video? It *sounds* like he didn't. Of all people to hide it from!
DeleteAs a Canadian I am familiar with Dr Bindernagel. He is an extremely intelligent man and a talented researcher. His expertise makes him a valued wildlife biologist in the scientific community. His views on Sasquatch are a little like Stephen Hawkins and black holes: Can't show you one, but the evidence says they are there.
ReplyDeleteDr Bindernagel's book titled, "North America's Great Ape: the Sasquatch," is heady reading, but a pleasure to read. He develops a hypothesis into an elegant theory, which I see as a brave stance to take in the social media driven world of Sasquatch: a far cry from the skeptics who have not put in any intelligent research time in to support their positions.
THE DISCOVERY OF THE SASQUATCH
ReplyDeleteReconciling Culture, History, and Science in the Discovery Process.
The North American Sasquatch has most commonly been perceived as a cultural phenomenon, often in the form of an incorporeal being such as a myth, super-natural experience, or hallucination. If considered a corporeal being, the Sasquatch is widely dismissed as a misidentified bear or human hoaxer.
This book reviews some of the reasons why this perception has persisted, and why most attempts to attract the attention of scientific colleagues and scientifically minded readers to a less commonly considered alternative—the Sasquatch as an extant mammal have failed.
This book also summarizes the attempts of one scientist to explain why he, along with a handful of scientific colleagues and numerous field investigators, holds and advocates a view of the North American Sasquatch which challenges prevailing knowledge.
—from the author’s preface
Dr BINDERNAGEL'S BOOK?
DeleteAbout the Book
DeleteIn THE DISCOVERY OF THE SASQUATCH, biologist John Bindernagel reconsiders much of the prevailing knowledge regarding the sasquatch. Illustrating evidence which contradicts the widely held perception of the sasquatch as merely a cultural phenomenon—a myth, hallucination, imaginary being, misidentified bear, or hoax—he explains why criteria such as testability, consistency, predictive power, and simplicity actually support an alternative hypothesis: the sasquatch as an extant mammal.
This is a book about the sasquatch, but it is more specifically about the discovery process. It examines scientific and social factors that can prevent discoveries from being recognized, particularly when a discovery claim is perceived as unlikely, premature, or without a theoretical basis. Bindernagel examines how these factors have affected our perceptions of the sasquatch, and how they may have influenced scientific attitudes toward this controversial subject. By reconciling the social and scientific components of discovery, he shows how the various forms of evidence for the sasquatch can be viewed in the context of a prolonged discovery process. In doing so, he provides a bold new perspective explaining the need to reconsider—and perhaps challenge—long-standing prevailing knowledge about the sasquatch.
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The Discovery of the Sasquatch offers important insights not only about a potentially uncataloged species, but also about the humans who have thus far declined to investigate it. Bindernagel's scholarship unlocks a door to discovery that was carelessly shut long ago, but now stands wide open, waiting for us to walk through.
— from the Foreword by Leila Hadj-Chikh, PhD
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John Bindernagel has given us a closely argued, cogent, convincing explanation why the evidence has not brought widespread acknowledgment that sasquatches are extant. In doing so he underscores how impressive that evidence actually is. This ingenious, insightful approach has increased drastically my personal estimate of the probability that sasquatch is an extant North American ape…. But the book’s value goes beyond the topic of sasquatch. Bindernagel illustrates the need to compare hypotheses, a salutary lesson. Most of us have or spare little time to look in depth at every interesting and controversial subject, so it’s easy to succumb to a lazy skepticism that accepts hoaxing, say, as an adequate explanation. But lazy skepticism is just laziness, not skepticism, and Bindernagel demonstrates just how farfetched the hoaxing hypothesis is in this instance…. People who like to think will love this book.
— Henry Bauer, PhD, Dean Emeritus of Arts & Sciences, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry & Science Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
...one of the most brilliant pieces of work I have ever read. What a fabulous reminder of what science is and how science should be examining this issue... simply brilliant."
Delete— Kathy Strain, Forest Archaeologist, U.S. Forest Service
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A very engaging read, especially the combination of detailed compelling descriptions of recent encounters with something very strange and apparently inexplicable, and the rules we use for constructing knowledge using the scientific method….[The] book suggests we have a need to think again about the historical encounters with unexpected beings in the bush. I very much appreciate [the author’s] presentation of the challenges [for science] at many different levels – including social and collegial. These are very important reminders of the social realities behind how science is conducted and, significantly, how it is presented."
— Martin Weinstein, Ph.D, Adjunct Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
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For a work of epistemology, the presentation is lively and engaging; I read it all with pleasure in two days and found my appreciation of the Sasquatch phenomenon clarified and broadened….. [T]he level of the discussion makes it a valuable case study in the history of science, and I recommend it to all who might appreciate a serious discussion of the subject."
— Paul LeBlond, Ph.D, former chair, Department of Oceanography, University of British Columbia
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This engrossing book explores two questions: (i) What is the evidence for a rare, large, secretive species of primate (or “great ape”) living in North America at present? (ii) Why do so many people who know of it disbelieve in it, ascribing reported sightings as tales by hoaxers or people who they think must have been hoaxed or deluded?…. Dr. Bindernagel presents opinions on these matters from a wide range of biologists, paleontologists, psychologists, sociologists, and others. A really good read, and an eye-opener for mindless believers and mindless disbelievers alike.
— Chris Pielou, PhD, ecologist and author of After the Ice Age: the Return of Life to Glaciated North America, The Energy of Nature, and The World of Northern Evergreens
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Journalist, author, and long-term investigator, John Green, adds:
More than 50 years ago I encountered compelling evidence that huge bipeds with humanlike feet exist in North America, and, as such evidence continued to accumulate, I have spent a half century attempting, with little success, to persuade scientists in relevant disciplines to cease relying on ‘it can’t be’ beliefs and to subject the matter to serious study.
Now Dr. John Bindernagel is challenging the scientific establishment on its own turf, contending that the rigours of the scientific method must be applied not just to the evidence that such creatures exist, but also to alternative hypotheses now generally accepted without scrutiny. In the face of daunting prejudice he has done a great job of presenting his case. Anyone with an open mind will find the book fascinating reading."
— John Green, author of On the Track of the Sasquatch, Year of the Sasquatch, The Sasquatch File, and Sasquatch: the Apes Among Us.
Anyone notice how bored the kid on the left seemed the entire time? I hope he doesn't plan on interviewing as a career.
ReplyDeleteand he keeps saying "so um yeah" before every question. im sure he will turn about to be a senator or something.
DeleteDr. John saw a SAS in Kentucky while at the Erickson habituation site. He witnessed a female from the waist up at around 40 yds.
ReplyDeleteYes I think they have a long way to go before they consider a media job, perhaps it is more about looking laid back to their friends, props to Dr Bindernagel for being so gracious.
ReplyDeleteEducation:
ReplyDeleteBSA (University of Guelph, Canada) 1964
MS and PhD (University of Wisconsin) 1970
Post doctoral fellowship (Department of Zoology, University of Guelph) 1971
North American Experience: 1963—ongoing:
Wildlife research and management in Canada (Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia)
International Experience: 1965-1990
Wildlife surveys, research and preparation of conservation and management plans in Africa (Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique), Asia (Iran), Central America (Belize), and the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada).
Research Interests:
As a young biologist in the 1960s and 1970s I was interested in wildlife utilization (both consumptive (as in game cropping for meat in East Africa), and non-consumptive (as in wildlife viewing and ecological tourism).
Since 1975, my work in western Canada has included wildlife parasitology, wildlife surveys (moose, mule deer, elk, and caribou), and environmental impact studies with regard to the effects of logging and hydroelectric dams on wildlife.
My interest in the sasquatch, which began while an undergraduate student at the University of Guelph in 1965, remained latent until we moved to British Columbia in 1975 following a United Nations assignment in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. Sasquatch research remained a largely undisclosed interest while establishing myself as a consulting biologist in British Columbia but took on renewed interest when I observed and cast fresh sasquatch tracks in 1988. By 1995 I had reached the conclusion to be framed in the title of my 1998 book that the sasquatch was not only extant but that it was North America's Great Ape and, as noted in the subtitle, that it was “the continent's most misunderstood large mammal.”
When, after several years, it became clear that the 1998 book was essentially being ignored by the relevant members of the scientific community, I came to the conclusion that the real mystery of the sasquatch was not whether or not existed—I had answered this question for myself in the affirmative some time ago—but: Why was the sasquatch a scientifically taboo subject?
This question led to a 7-year-long research and writing project which culminated in the book titled The Discovery of the Sasquatch: Reconciling Culture, History, and Science in the Discovery Process. It was completed in the summer of 2010 and published in the fall of that year.
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