Sunday, September 02, 2012

LINK: Reviews – Charles Paxton – The vital statistics of the Loch Ness Monster

Charles Paxton and descriptions of Nessie
Charles Paxton and descriptions of Nessie

Skeptical Cryptozoology


The Kraken Rises at Skeptics on the Fringe
Kraken Rum sponsor Charles Paxton’s research into sea monsters

As we sat, waiting for the lovely and always intriguing Charles Paxton to begin his talk on the stats of Nessie, we were treated to a man in an old fashioned diving suit handing out rum. As you do. So an interesting start.

Charles then dove into Loch Ness Monster stats with a tray of free sample rums nearby, but he showed great restraint! His talk was an interesting diversion from our other talks which for the most part have focused on psychology, secularism and other more mainstream sciences. Charles spoke about Cryptozoology and tried, and I believe succeeded, in pointing out to the audience that cryptozoology is not automatically woo that tries to find bigfoot.

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