S1 E9: Why We Want To Believe

Wild Thing

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Science

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Bigfoot researchers remain optimistic that Sasquatch is out there; that the creature will one day be found. Why? Why do people continue to believe? We’ll talk to professional skeptic Michael Shermer about the nature of belief. And we’ll look at why—even for those who think Bigfoot is a complete myth—the idea of Bigfoot holds so much appeal. What makes us so fascinated by this creature? Why do we want so badly to believe that it’s out there?

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0:00.0	Hi Todd, how are you?
0:08.0	Fine, how's my connection?
0:10.0	I'm on another subpar skypline with Todd Disatel, the molecular primatologist at New York
0:15.6	University.
0:17.1	He's got the information I've been waiting weeks for, the results of the DNA analysis from
0:22.6	the giant ground nests on the Olympic Peninsula.
0:26.1	Those 10-foot diameter woven nests that a few people think might have been made by Bigfoot.
0:34.1	And I've been on pins and needles about this for weeks.
0:37.6	What if they've really got something?
0:39.4	What if they've made a huge find?
0:41.8	But what if they haven't?
0:43.8	This makes me nervous.
0:44.8	Ah, my palms are sweaty.
0:46.6	Okay, here goes nothing.
0:49.2	So what did you find out?
0:50.5	What are the results?
0:52.4	Well, we sequenced five different samples that they had collected a while ago.
1:00.2	Part of the problem was they're fairly old and so they're slightly degraded.
1:05.4	Nevertheless, we still got millions of individual sequences.
1:11.2	Sequences of DNA.
1:12.7	None of them were of an unknown primate.
1:16.1	The only primate we found was human and it was specifically real human, not just close
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