Author: Barbara Mervine
Barbara Mervine runs the Yankeeskeptic.com blog and is author of skeptic children’s books for preschoolers, including Fairy Tales, Fairly Told (available at Amazon.com). She also lectures on the fun and challenges of working with everyone from alien abductees to Bigfoot hunters.
You Can Lead Believers to Knowledge, but You Can’t Make Them Think
“Give a person an answer, they will know Bigfoot isn’t real. Teach a person skepticism, and they’ll think Bigfoot isn’t real, aliens aren’t visiting from Venus, and they’ll vaccinate their children.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos, and Everything
I consider an archive like a dark, still pool. I like to give it a stir and see what pops up to the surface.
Bigfoot Club Skeptic
I became the “skeptic” member of the local Bigfoot group almost by chance. I owe the offer to join to the reality TV show “Finding Bigfoot” (they never actually do). The show, featuring perennial Bigfoot personality Matt Moneymaker, has a skeptic, Ranae Holland.