Professor: Bigfoot exists, and science should care

Professor: Bigfoot exists, and science should care

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Whether the large, hairy hominid known as Bigfoot truly roams the wilderness of Humboldt County hasn't deterred scores of enthusiasts and a television series from joining a nearly 60-year quest to find signs and footprints of the ever-elusive creature. But one local scientist and professor says the search for Bigfoot opens a larger discussion about what the science world deems worthy of research and what happens to those fields that fall into what he calls "the crackpot realm." At a free event this Friday at the Freshwater Grange in Eureka, Humboldt State University physics professor emeritus Richard Stepp is set to discuss and answer questions as to why he thinks Bigfoot exists and why the science world should take a serious look at the subject. "People have to understand so that if they come into the talk and make assumptions that scientists have looked into this in a big way and found nothing and therefore very likely there is nothing to find, they would be making a mistake," Stepp said in an interview with the Times-Standard. "Science has not gone into this in a big way."...

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Yippee! We have a physicist talking about zoology. He's in his native realm - not.

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