Crypto-Cat-Fight Continues

Oh no, Matt Moneymaker. Watch out! Here comes Daniel Perez and a possible future treatment in The Bigfootimes. Perez is telegraphing to the world that he’s interested in gathering stories that people have been telling online and privately for years about Moneymaker. As Perez posted on a public forum yesterday: "The more I hear about Moneymaker’s activities, the more I think he should be exposed for what he is."

As far as a quick update on our May 7th posting, entitled "BFRO Declares War on Cryptomundo," Cryptomundo informants discovered soon afterwards that some rapid editing occurred at the BFRO. Aware of the tales of the disappearing of the So-no-no-ma video claims, no one was shocked by this. There was little surprise that revisions would be visited upon the BFRO’s "advice" to Malaysia so quickly after we posted about the BFRO stumblings.

On Monday, May 8th, right after the Cryptomundo posting, the BFRO "commentary" went through some changes. The alterations appeared to be especially targeted at the following two original passages:

It’s definitely not a “best practice” among real scientists (as opposed to non-scientist authors who call themselves cryptozoologists) to be melodramatic about photos without actually showing them.

One good image will sell the book better than 1,000 news conferences or 5 “pulp cryptozoology” bloggers.

The new May 8th BFRO commentary, seemingly addressed to Vincent Chow, was again found immediately below the New Straits Times article, read late on that date, thusly:

This would be a bigger story, obviously, if the photos (even just one of the photos) were shown during the press conference. Do you plan to do another press conference about the book when you can actually show the photos??

We’re assuming your objectives with this book are worldwide interest, widespread acceptance, and the many splendored things that come along with all that. How could these objectives be hindered by releasing the photos early on, if you’re already giving a press conference about the book?

It’s not a good practice to be talking about photos without actually showing them. Public expectations about unseen photos are bound to rise beyond the actual clarity of the images. The actual images will inevitably fall short of what most people will be expecting, unless expectations are set appropriately from the beginning, by showing a sample. Best to avoid creating false expectations. If you can’t show the photos yet, then you should not give press conferences about them.

There will not be advanced orders of the book just based on hype about unseen photos. It won’t happen that way, no matter what Loren tells you.

The copyright owner of the photos has nothing to lose by releasing one image, but has everything to gain, especially if there is more than one image.

One good image will sell the book better than 1,000 news conferences or 5 Loren Colemans.

Well, now that, LOL, made clear what and whom was being discussed in the earlier version, didn’t it?

Of course, this revised "commentary" suffered from the same shortcomings of the other one, apparently not understanding that there never was an initial press conference about the book’s publication. Or even that I was not giving anyone any advice about what they should or should not be doing in Malaysia. No, that happens to be a projection from a certain person at the BFRO, and not based in reality. Ha. But we’ve gone over this before.

That’s okay. It makes sense, since the BFRO has not been in the middle of this story, and their reaction time has been confused and short of the mark. The fantasy "book press release conference" that never happened has spun off into many incorrect facts. For example, on Coast to Coast AM tonight I’ll detail how even the nonexisting "June publication date" developed from a misunderstanding. We are not going to see this book for months, perhaps not even until next year or beyond.

Online you’ll find bloggers like the Ghost Writer, for example, cleverly characterizing the first Cryptomundo blog vs BFRO commentary as a "crypto-cat-fight". And BFRO-clones have dropped comments at Cryptomundo. But this tempest in a teapot is merely illustrative of the strong personalities and politics that people sometimes ignore within cryptozoology. Hominology and cryptozoology have all the positives and negatives of every other human endeavor. So be it. The pursuit of unknown animals continues on.

By the way, what’s the looks of the latest BFRO version of their "commentary," as seen and visible on the morning of May 10, 2006? Well, not surprisingly, the header "BFRO Commentary" is still there, but the editorial below it has been completely removed. All you find this morning is a blank page. But go ahead and check yourself. There might be something new there by now.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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