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30th May 2013, 07:49 PM | #281 |
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I don't know how some of you reached the conclusion that Bill Munns doesn't believe in Patty's authenticity. If I remember correctly, this was something that was originally brought up by Kitakaze in one of his dishonest attempts at discrediting the PGF.
What has Bill proven? He's proven that the subject in the PGF would be incredibly difficult to re-create with traditional materials and techniques that are used for creating costumes. Maybe even impossible back in the 1960's/1970's once you add everything up. The PGF hasn't stuck around the past 45 years simply because proponents are finding excuses for it to. It really is an incredible piece of film. You can easily confirm this yourself by comparing it to all the other Bigfoot videos that are on YouTube, where 99% are fakes. |
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Isn't Bill Munn the one who tried to claim that there weren't any visible splices in the PGF? I wonder if he thinks that Hollywood movies are filmed all in one go, since you can't see the splices in those either. I was frankly bewildered by this claim. Or was that someone else?
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If the ABRO, rather than the BFRO, had gained the ascendency during the internet’s formative years of the 90’s would we be having this same discussion about Marx’s “incredible footage” rather than Patterson’s?
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31st May 2013, 12:28 AM | #287 |
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The PGF has stuck 45 years around because no one cares beside the skeptic and the BF believer. Absolutely no one. Heck scratch that no one beside BF believer and the few skeptic which are interrested and bother discussing it.
As for Bill he has proven nothing. Proof is mathematic. The only things he has evidenced is that the way he did it was not the way it was done. But looking at the hip wader and the other microscopic detail in the film, and the preponderance of other evidence (P's picture book, details changing, absence of corpse, anatomy of the things looking like a costume) I am sorry but for us most "casual" skeptic , we just shake head. But sociologically it is fascinating to see people defending this so adamentely. |
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He's either a liar or a dolt and he doesn't seem like a dolt to me, so that kind of narrows it down. Absolutely. It's stuck around because it's hilarious. Damn straight. It's comedy gold. You know people are laughing at it, not with it, right? |
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Some tried to point out the obvious. (I was one of them!) For one he was only examining copies. Without the out of camera original it's a pretty empty claim. I'm sure he knows this, however he will twist the presentations made. Secondly, it is quite possible to make "invisible" splices. The PGF only sticks around to its fans, much like the alien autopsy. Add in a few nessies, and ghosts, and I'll be darned. There are lots of cool videos/films out there! They all stuck around, even after being exposed. (Heironimus what? lol) I'll agree that it was a cool hoax, but nothing more. The only thing Bill Munns proved regarding the suit was that he could not accurately re-create the suit using the same materials Roger did. (perhaps Munns couldve started with a Morris suit and altered it to best match - if that is how one thinks it may have been done) To me it matters not who made the suit, or who was in it. Munns did not even get close. Sure it would be nice to get the actual suit now and document it before it falls apart. (should it still exist) OS, what is this?
Note how the upper half of the suit rotates separate from hips/legs. Moves almost like a coat on a person. Hmm. Not to mention that diaper butt/turtle legs coming out of the shell and going back in. No way that could be shoulder pads. Must be a bigfoot! How do you explain the sideways knee? How about the X tendons? Looks a lot like how a hipwader folds... No way a human could fit inside that suit. Impossible right OS? Rawr. |
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Marlborough started this thread on the 9th of April 2010, in response to a new BFF thread by Bill Munns stating that his analysis had confirmed an extraordinarily unlikely probability that "Patty" could be a human in a bigfoot suit. So by early April of 2010, Bill Munns had already completed and written up analysis that compelled him to make such a bold claim: If we're willing to accept a 1:20000 error rate (and who isn't?), the PGF proves the reality of bigfoot!
What has Bill done with that startling revelation? As of midnight tonight it will be June of 2013. In the previous three years, what effort has Bill put in to publish his scholarship and actually open it up to legitimate peer review? It's not like he has no contact with a mainstream academic (Meldrum) who claims to be equally convinced of the PGF's authenticity and with whom he has worked to secure additional grant money to study the film. Meldrum can certainly help him organize his textbergs into a manuscript. From what I can see, however, since announcing three years ago that the film must be authentic, neither Munns nor Meldrum have made any attempt to publish anything on it. They have instead been beating the bushes to find more money, ostensibly to study something that they've already stated is the real deal (Munns in his BFF textbergs and Meldrum in his "ichnotaxon" paper). Sorry, but I don't know what you call that other than fraudulent. If Bill needs more money to study the film, then he should retract his previous statements about it. If he's still sure that it's a bigfoot on film based on his analysis then he doesn't need more money to continue studying it, he needs to man up and write a paper on it. So other than insert himself as a big man on campus in the world of bigfootery, I don't know what Bill has "done" other than to play a bunch of gullible people like Yo Yo Ma wailing on a cello. |
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This red circle shows that the PGF is a hoax.
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Though they are getting more high tech. Following the lead of ghosthunting pseudoscience, some bigfoot "researchers" are getting into the thermal cam. I mean, what better way to get an indistinct human-like image?
I almost can't blame these folks for trying to sell such nonsense considering how many are willing to buy it. |
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31st May 2013, 03:53 PM | #300 |
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So what is the big problem with Munn's analysis of the PGF?
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Bill Munns claims that it's (essentially) impossible for a human in a suit to have been "Patty" in the PGF. If it's impossible for Patty to have been a suited human, then that leads us to the inescapable conclusion that bigfoot is real!
Why does he claim that it's impossible to have been a guy in a suit? Specifically, I'm not sure, given that it's been shown time and time again that a person could be fit into Patty's apparent proportions. The ultimate problem seems to be that Bill is falling prey to the argument from personal incredulity. In other words, he can't figure out how Patterson could have made that suit, therefore, it must not be a suit. Where it gets really sketchy is that Bill has established himself as something of an authority on making suits of hairy monsters. So he's baited his audience into the fallacy of argument from authority. "If Bill Munns says Patty is the real deal, then she's the real deal!" So you have a guy claiming expert knowledge in monkey suit-making, who claims that Patty couldn't have been a monkey suit: classic use of the arguments from authority and personal incredulity to make the case that bigfoot must be real. It gets pretty hairy though the more one considers the likelihood that there's no personal incredulity at all, merely the claim of personal incredulity. |
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Munns announced to the world (or at least the bigfooters) that Patty was a real bigfoot and he was going to prove it. To that end he started studying the suit, looking for muscles and other organic signs, and he said he'd go where the evidence took him.
Well, he abruptly stopped studying the suit (for obvious reasons) and switched to proving Patty was a monster by proving that she was 7'-3" tall. And he did it!!!! Until the skeptics took a look at his calculations. His height analysis was flawed because no-one knows how far Patty was from the camera, and without that measurement her height cannot be calculated - end of story. To get around that problem Munns used an established but unverified distance and calculated Patty's height at well under 6'. Undaunted he discovered that if he changed the camera lens size from 1" (25mm) to 15mm he came up with a value of over 7', so he ran with that theory instead of admitting the distance from Patty to the camera was the problem, or that Patty may be under 6' tall. That is an example of how he is not honest and should not be trusted when the PGF is the subject. |
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It was obvious from day one when BM started posting here @ JREF talking about his "research" that he was going to declare Patty a real BF.
It would seem that BM is not @ the top of the heap in his chosen profession. I suspect he came into bigfootery with the sole intent of milking suckers for $ and getting face time on TV, etc., which he has had some success. |
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Bill's analysis of the PGF is currently in peer review and I think Meldrum is somehow involved. It would be nice if Bill could be allowed back here because he's really the only one who can clear up some of the misconceptions.
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What's wrong with Meldrum?
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Actually that is not the end of the story. If Munns used photogrammetry software, instead of his pretend reverse engineering with a CGI modelling tool, the distances and heights could be verified. OK, not verified, but he would have a valid mathematical methodology to back his claims.
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From the outset, I asked for a couple of his high quality scans, you know, the scans he promised researchers to verify his claims, and offered to run them through a true photogrammetry programme. Nuffin. My correspondence with him (on and off this forum) was initially cordial, I even went so far as to obtain the same software he used and tried to get his numbers to work, but as I pointed out more and more flaws in his methodology, the replies from him became less frequent and less cordial, until there was stone cold silence. I'm sure I was not the only one. |
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Regular posters here have no misconceptions about BM. He knows the PGF is a bloke in a suit. There is no money in telling the world what it already knows and BM is in it for $.
He's prbably beside himself that TheMelba reportedly raked in 500 G's. Makes what he has bilked from fools look like pocket change. |
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You just gave yourself away. That is to say, now you're just trolling. You think you're playing some open ended 'last wink' game by always reassuring us somehow you're still a Bigfoot believer and nothing our sorry asses could do or say would ever change your mind. But actually it's worse...for you. You've now officially climbed (sunk?) to Forrest Gump level. Now every time you post it's like we have to retrain you all over again that it's an intelligent forum. Where apparently we discuss Bigfoot more honestly than you're able to comprehend. And where we righteously give no slack to the many phony for-profit myth peddlers.
Now please go read the Meldrum thread before you ask another stupid ******* question like that. Cripes! |
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You do understand the concept of peer review correct? It is for the paper to be challenged and checked/balanced by others currently working in the field of said profession. Meldrum already believes the PGF to represent a real animal. (or at least he says he does) Does that sound like much of a check or balance? Or does it sound much more like preaching to the choir? Bigfooters, and especially Munns do not want this challenged by unbiased peers. If he does, perhaps they are not expressing the interest in taking the time to do so. When I last researched the opinion of other effects artists/monster guys I found 12 other opinions out there saying they thought the PGF was a GIAS. So you have Munns vs the rest. Munns does seem to have a hard time proving his theories. (at least to anyone outside of the bigfootery world) So, do you think Meldrum would accept Munns paper? Of course. Do you think it makes it any more credible? Maybe about as credible as Meldrums work on bigfoot? (elk lay, Freeman tracks, BCM tracks, PGF) Solid ground to stand on for sure... If you're representing that bigfoot is a man made hoax. |
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And don't forget that Munns and Meldrum are working together on a project.
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