UHHHH it figures this one would come from the report.... one from my state...
"I know they exist – I see them every day," a conference participant, Robin Lynn, said by telephone from Kemerovo. She says she has a family of 10 yeti-like creatures living on her land in the US state of Michigan.
I think the 95% claim has more to do with this statement
The Kemerovo government has hosted a number of stunts aimed at boosting the region's reputation as a yeti centre.
Here is what I see wrong with these articles. They make claims which if you just relied on scientific evidence I would have no problem with. But in this article they state a woman from Michigan has a family of ten living on her property and she see's them daily. If this was the case we wouldn't still be questioning their existence. We have thousands of reported sightings on a popular bigfoot web site. Take time and start reading these claims. Most are children to young teens or an adult who recalls an experience from 30 years ago. Go to a bigfoot convention and look at what they present as evidence. A great deal of it has been proven something else from a bear to a human. At one of these conventions they presented a woman who claims they live with a family of bigfoots. These bigfeet often come to her door to borrow garlic......... if these researchers want to be taken seriously they eliminate all the bullshit.
Another example .... a woman at night traveling 45 mph see's a bigfoot in the road ahead at 30 feet. She slams on the brake and stops and watches it at 17 feet. This was a report on this popular bigfoot site. Now see anything wrong here? Like at 45mph it takes on average 96 feet to stop. Add on reaction time and we are closer to 180 feet. This is easy to write off but it isn't, it is instead posted as a class a sighting. So lets eliminate all the bullshit .... what are you left with? very little.
Look at all the reported big feet prints they vary from three toed to six ..... see anything wrong here?
http://www.ghosttheory.com/2011/10/26/the-russian-connection-scientists-not-95-certain-on-the-yeti
UPDATE: Guess what? Scientists are NOT 95% sure. Not much of a surprise there.
Larry Debunk said:
Here is what I see wrong with these articles. They make claims which if you just relied on scientific evidence I would have no problem with. But in this article they state a woman from Michigan has a family of ten living on her property and she see's them daily. If this was the case we wouldn't still be questioning their existence. We have thousands of reported sightings on a popular bigfoot web site.
I agree with Larry on this one.
I like how "Scientists" is often used in these sorts of articles as this magical word to mean "These group of dudes that you should just believe, because they used the POWER of SCIENCE".
But rarely do we find out what sort of study they conducted, sample size, controlled conditions.... because often theres no science involved at all.