By the way, just what is "Bigfootery" anyway? Is that like UFOlogy?
Beware the Bigfooters, for they are ignorant, and will lead you into their cults when you least expect it.
The JREFers are at it again, pondering the thing they don't believe exists -- Bigfoot. This is something like Bigfoot thread number forty. On this thread: Bigfootery -- Is It Totally Harmless? they're seriously discussing the harm "belief" in bigfoot can cause. Aside from equating Bigfoot research with the often questionable psychic Sylvia Browne, which is supernatural in itself, the skeptoids put forth their arguments on why thinking Bigfoot could exist, does exist, and worse, actually doing research and going out in the woods looking for the creature, is nuts. More importantly, it's harmful. Yes, Bigfoot researchers are harming humanity by willfully continuing to "believe in" Bigfoot, talk about their experiences, study and research.
While Bigfoot research, or even a "belief" in Bigfoot (one can't "believe" in Bigfoot; you don't see anyone praying to a giant chainsaw sculpture of a Sasquatch, do you?) might seem harmless, it's not. Because before you know it, the same people that, er, "believe" in Bigfoot will succumb to creationism and book burning and psychic scams and a whole long list of worrisome woo.
For example, one member on the JREF calling himself (or herself)EeneyMinnieMoe, explains this fear for humanity if Bigfoot belief continues:
Even if no one is hurt by it in and of itself, the wide-spread existence of these beliefs help foster an atmosphere of ignorance, unquestioning acceptance and credulity. Lack of questioning and scrutiny is never good, even if it's about something as silly as a creature in the woods or in the lake. This goes for an individual- who believes in something wacky but mostly benign but might and often will gravitate towards more harmful beliefs- as well as for society as a whole.
Today, it might be about a big monkey. Tomorrow, it will about something much more serious.
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