Endlessly Amazed
Endlessly, you know, amazed
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I have only read through one of the 411 Missing books - there are now seven books by him with 411 in the title. Good grief! This person has created a cottage industry out of salacious vagueness in three main areas: responsibility, magnitude, and possible cause. He never states clearly what he thinks is going on or how to achieve better results.
(He follows the same pattern as another least favorite author: Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad/Poor Dad infamy. Hints, long stories, vagueness, lack of criteria for disprovability. This pattern is also found in many new age self-help books. Perhaps all these lame authors attend the same kind of workshop to learn how to promote obfuscation and anxiety while relieving the public of their money.)
Responsibility: In the book I read, he never specifically states the different responsibilities of the agencies involved: the state level Game and Fish, Federal level US Forest Service, local police, state troopers, Indian reservations, etc. The varying responsibilities means that some agencies are responsible for keeping track of missing people, and others are not. He misleads the readers in implying that the Forest Service deliberately does not track the missing in order to minimize the public's awareness of the vast number of people missing.
Magnitude: he never gives any information about the number of missing who are later found, alive or dead from mundane causes.
Possible causes: he promotes the case that many of the missing are mysterious cases with no conventional cause. He never stated that Bigfoot was the cause; he only hints at this and in doing so creates a vague sense of unease.
I think Paulides has come to believe his own inventions because his livelihood depends on it. In his Amazon author biography, he states, "In June 2012 Mr. Paulides was an invited speaker at the 2012 National Association of Search and Rescue (NASAR) annual conference in South Lake Tahoe." Apparently the search and rescue professionals were so underwhelmed, they never invited him back.
Plus, I really dislike his moustache.
(He follows the same pattern as another least favorite author: Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad/Poor Dad infamy. Hints, long stories, vagueness, lack of criteria for disprovability. This pattern is also found in many new age self-help books. Perhaps all these lame authors attend the same kind of workshop to learn how to promote obfuscation and anxiety while relieving the public of their money.)
Responsibility: In the book I read, he never specifically states the different responsibilities of the agencies involved: the state level Game and Fish, Federal level US Forest Service, local police, state troopers, Indian reservations, etc. The varying responsibilities means that some agencies are responsible for keeping track of missing people, and others are not. He misleads the readers in implying that the Forest Service deliberately does not track the missing in order to minimize the public's awareness of the vast number of people missing.
Magnitude: he never gives any information about the number of missing who are later found, alive or dead from mundane causes.
Possible causes: he promotes the case that many of the missing are mysterious cases with no conventional cause. He never stated that Bigfoot was the cause; he only hints at this and in doing so creates a vague sense of unease.
I think Paulides has come to believe his own inventions because his livelihood depends on it. In his Amazon author biography, he states, "In June 2012 Mr. Paulides was an invited speaker at the 2012 National Association of Search and Rescue (NASAR) annual conference in South Lake Tahoe." Apparently the search and rescue professionals were so underwhelmed, they never invited him back.
Plus, I really dislike his moustache.
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