Exactly. And the bottom line is that, once again, the evidence was on his side.
An easy way to tell pseudoscience from a real phenomena is whether the evidence improves over time or remains crappy. Cryptids are firmly in the latter camp, as illustrated by the xkcd cartoon upthread. No matter how much time passes and how many cameras we fill the world with, there’s been zero improvement in the quality of evidence. Another good example is UFOs. Nobody ever manages to catch more than a blinking light or a lens flare, no matter how good cameras get. What that means is, there’s no there there.
As instrumentation improves, noise goes down and signal goes up. If your data is still too noisy to be meaningful by now on these kinds of things, it’s because your signal is all noise.
