New York Times Profiles Jersey Devil Hunters

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The New York Times has a write up about the “Jersey Devil Hunters” (featured here previously).

It’s a bit of a fluff piece, with the obligatory bigfoot hoax mention and a somewhat patronizing tone, but it does provide a pretty fair look at the group, which seems to be more a social club than a group doing serious research.

Here’s the bit that bothers me:

So far, they have encountered little more than creepy noises, but they adhere to the credo embraced by all seekers of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and Great Caesar’s ghost.

As Ms. Leuter has written: “Until someone proves that there isn’t something out there, I will continue to believe that there is, and I will also continue my efforts to find proof that the Jersey Devil does in fact exist. So there.”

If the Flying Spaghetti Monster (or Bertrand Russell’s teapot) has shown us nothing else, it’s that proving a negative is a) futile and b) completely unscientific.

Link to New York Times article

Link to the Devil Hunters website

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