Just because someone is an academic does not make them more believable or more trustworthy than anyone else. Academics can also have their own agendas. Look at the 'academics' who helped dictators like Hitler. Academics will ride any gravy train that offers them a living where they can use their talents. They need to make a living like everyone else. In these days of social media and 'documentaries' being made about supernatural phenomenon the film makers feel better about paying and interviewing doctor A or professor B. It adds a veneer of academic status to the documentary's content. It's better than just interviewing Frank C who works on a farm. But I guarantee every academic will never offer proof of Bigfoot's existence or make anything other than non-committal comments like 'further research is needed' as they hand the media company their contact details. 
Bigfoot should be seen for what it is. An old fashioned mythical folklore creature like dragons.
People have a right to their beliefs and many people prefer to sit on fences with their open minds. Open mindedness is fine until someone like an academic working for a higher power comes along with an agenda and starts to fill in gaps using pseudo-intellectual language and edited video clips and lots of very definite sounding statements which are actually complete non-answers. An open mind is like an open box. Ready to be filled by anyone, you could grow nourishing herbs in your box or you could allow someone else to put a rattlesnake in your box.
If you look at an earlier mass delusion in history 'Witchcraft'. Witches were actually women healers in rural communities and they knew loads of knowledge but not necessarily why things worked. They would help expectant mothers and heal the sick. The magic wand comes from a small hardwood staff the 'witch' would carry when visiting expectant mothers to tell them when a baby would be born. This still exists today in gynecology as the uterine sound. The mass witch killings across Europe were to establish men as the fountain of all healing and medical knowledge. Knowledge then came from the wealthy educated male dominated classes. I wonder how many open minded people allowed themselves to be led to watch their local witch go up in smoke and believed what they were being told by their local dignitaries about how evil their local healers were ? How they cast magic spells using their wands, cooked children, turned themselves in to black cats, or flew on their broomsticks.
Or that a donkey once spoke to a man and this was because an angel inhabited its body... it just goes to show that things written in books by the 'experts' of their day are not automatically what they seem, or worthy of keeping an open mind for.
Tibetan monks thought they had a 300-year-old yeti scalp, but when they were finally convinced to let it go off for testing, by none other than Sir Edmund Hillary, it turned out to be made of goat fur. A similar tale applies to a yeti hand, found to be human. Hair samples once sent to the FBI by the founder of a so-called bigfoot group turned out to be deer.
The only 'evidence' we have are footprints, and the first US ones were fake.
The world's leading yeti hunters, one man after them for 60 years, now claim it to be an Asian bear. The leading hunters no longer believe it is a unique animal, and given all the technology available today how could a species of large animal, totalling hundreds or thousands of individuals in order to be a viable breeding pool, remain undiscovered
across several continents.
And then there's the obscure videos, which are always jerky, never settling on the subject for longer than a half second, out-of-focus, and low-fi, like some low budget found footage movie, so that nobody knows what they're looking at and can therefore easily be led.
The DPI has its own yeti, a photo which is of a man for the sake of a little enhancement. It just goes to show that people see what they want to see, and they believe what they want to believe.
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