This amazon review pretty much tears him a new one:
92 THE 408 UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCES HE DETAILS IN BOTH WESTERN AND EASTERN EDITIONS WERE FOUND ALIVE AND WELL! WHAT IS SO UNEXPLAINABLE ABOUT SO MANY PEOPLE BEING FOUND ALIVE?
These are nothing more than an interesting collection of missing persons and David Paulides is CLEARLY trying to attribute the disappearances to Bigfoot. He's a big time BIGFOOT "researcher" and he's constantly and subtly implicating Bigfoot in the cases. His claim of "offering no theories" is a smokescreen.
In real research, scientists need to disclose their conflicts of interest to their overseeing agencies, because those things make a difference to conclusions. Study design and methodology is important when you want your analysis of anything to be taken seriously at all. Data does not exist in a vacuum but needs to be contextualized by how it was gathered and who analyzed it (that's another reason why, in real research, researches look for Intercoder reliability to judge that the researchers have minimized bias errors through consensus).
Data is not judged purely on its merits, it's judged on the merits of the atmosphere in which it was collected and processed. The fact that Dave Paulides is obsessed with all things Bigfoot is hugely relevant to how he has interpreted his data.
Dave would also have his audience believe that the United States Park Service is engaging in a vast cover up of biblical proportions regarding records and tracking data of missing people. The Park Service does keep records; it's just that they won't release them to HIM. Michael P. Ghiglieri and Charles R. Farabee co-wrote "OFF THE WALL, DEATH IN YOSEMITE outlining some 1300 cases of deaths, disappearances and other mishaps during that parks' existence. These accounts were gathered by utilizing coroner repots, superintendent reports and Freedom of information requests.
To articulate that the park service doesn't keep records is disingenuous and an outright LIE. A more accurate description would be that the Park Service won't give them to him. Perhaps it's because of his shady past and his known associations with all things Bigfoot.
Cherry picked reports cobbled together by Paulides who is woefully ill-informed and ignorant of modern search and rescue techniques along with the effects of hypothermia that spews purposely deceitful garbage.
Missing 411 Eastern and Western editions are the new books out by David Paul Paulides. These recent works follow on the heels of "Tribal Bigfoot" and the "The Hoopa Project". These books are specifically about Bigfoot. According to Paulides, he embarked on a 3 year and 7000 man-hour quest to uncover missing people in the national parks. He filled numerous Freedom of Information Act Requests and "documents to support the stories in these books were found through exhaustive searches of various periodicals' archives". The Author became interested in the subject of missing persons when, "There was a point in my law enforcement career when I worked as a detective attached to a special team investigating high profile cases. One of the cases we participated in was a series of missing girls from California".
Paulides has a prestigious 20 year background in law enforcement as a detective and investigator that enables him to gather facts and interview witnesses to get to the facts of the case. On his NABS Blog #91 he states in part, "he chose to retire after twenty years, and no one in his group lies". The reality and truth of the matter is far stranger than anyone could imagine. David Paul Paulides was an Officer with the San Jose Police Department until 1996. He was charged and indicted for a misdemeanor crime that involved falsely obtaining autographs while fraudulently misrepresenting his position within the police department. His tenure fell short of the requisite 20 years required to retire and he was forced to leave with only 16.5 years. His last duty assignment was in the Court Liaison Office. Most likely he left voluntarily in lieu of being prosecuted and given an option to quit. On an ancillary note with this background I am curious as to what Senior Executive Position he has or had held in the Technology Sector. From what I can discern the North American Bigfoot Search is Mr. Paulides. Furthermore, Paulides has never been on a Search and Rescue team, or participated in any organized SAR. This book is a discredit and a slap in the face to those men and women that are.
SOURCE(S):
* San Jose Mercury News
* 2011 SJ Police and Fire Retirement Boards' vote to award David Paul Paulides a Deferred Vesting for 16.5
years as a Police Officer.
Paulides' missing 411 is a continuation of his earlier two works. They are repackaged with a new twist in his search for this elusive creature. He doesn't come out and state it emphatically, but these editions are nothing more than his belief that Bigfoot is taking people in the woods, across the county. Anyone with a general comprehension of the English language can establish this nexus, if you think otherwise I suggest a remedial class in reading comprehension. He also builds you up with his prestigious law enforcement career and his over inflated and exaggerated investigative skills in order for you to buy into his mythic self portrayals that are stratospheric in nature. Paulides is so blatantly agenda driven is a proven liar, a fraud and is only out to promote his website and sell books. To that end the "facts" as he presents them are seriously questionable and under the surface are not really facts at all, just his cherry picking articles in an attempt to shoehorn, his ideas to fit his theory.
The clusters that the Paulides describes are vague and general and he attributes them as unique factors, these factors are:
* Rural settings
* Dogs
* Bloodhounds/ Canines can't track scent
* Disabled/ Impaired
* Fever
* Conscious Semi Conscience
* Kidnapping,
* Afternoon Disappearances
* Swamps and Briar Patches
* Berries
* Clothing removed
* Missing found in areas previously searched
These last two factors are interesting due to Paulides' outright refusal to acknowledge paradoxical undressing as well as terminal burrowing, which are both related to Hypothermia. He is so dreadfully ill-informed relative to both of these factors that they could account for a MAJORITY of the cases outlined in "Missing 411" I agree that there are a handful of cases that fall into the unexplainable, or victims of a crime category, but these cases are a small handful of the cases Paulides paints. I consider the stories that were previously written about in other credible works that he coopted and reprinted in this category. Furthermore, they would not have filled one book let alone two. The vast majority of the cases in Missing 411 are not bizarre or mysterious as Paulides would have you believe; rather they follow the general conventions of a lost person, especially if those people are suffering from the effects of hypothermia. The conspicuous denial of these factors enables Paulides to shoehorn his ideas into a serious flawed theory!
I was initially interested in this book after he was interviewed by George Knapp on Coast to Coast AM. I was hesitant at first, due to some of his other controversial views on other topics, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt based on his dialog in the interview. After reading the Western Edition, I obtained a copy of the Eastern edition. In the Eastern edition Paulides wrote about two children in Maryland. They were Eldridge Albright who went missing from Woodstock Maryland in 1941, and Otis T. Mason who went missing in 1949 from Colesville Maryland. These cases were placed with Pennsylvania because of its close proximity to other cases. This was the first of many contradictions as well as the first of many facts that weren't thoroughly checked. Woodstock Maryland is approximately 67 miles from the PA State line and Colesville Maryland is approximately 70 miles. Both are nowhere near PA or any case near there. Is this an instance of shoehorning a case to fit the theory? Conversely, if he physically investigated these locations, how could he not realize they were anything but near to Pennsylvania?
* SOURCE: ADC map company
92 THE 408 UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCES HE DETAILS IN BOTH WESTERN AND EASTERN EDITIONS WERE FOUND ALIVE AND WELL! WHAT IS SO UNEXPLAINABLE ABOUT SO MANY PEOPLE BEING FOUND ALIVE?
These are nothing more than an interesting collection of missing persons and David Paulides is CLEARLY trying to attribute the disappearances to Bigfoot. He's a big time BIGFOOT "researcher" and he's constantly and subtly implicating Bigfoot in the cases. His claim of "offering no theories" is a smokescreen.
In real research, scientists need to disclose their conflicts of interest to their overseeing agencies, because those things make a difference to conclusions. Study design and methodology is important when you want your analysis of anything to be taken seriously at all. Data does not exist in a vacuum but needs to be contextualized by how it was gathered and who analyzed it (that's another reason why, in real research, researches look for Intercoder reliability to judge that the researchers have minimized bias errors through consensus).
Data is not judged purely on its merits, it's judged on the merits of the atmosphere in which it was collected and processed. The fact that Dave Paulides is obsessed with all things Bigfoot is hugely relevant to how he has interpreted his data.
Dave would also have his audience believe that the United States Park Service is engaging in a vast cover up of biblical proportions regarding records and tracking data of missing people. The Park Service does keep records; it's just that they won't release them to HIM. Michael P. Ghiglieri and Charles R. Farabee co-wrote "OFF THE WALL, DEATH IN YOSEMITE outlining some 1300 cases of deaths, disappearances and other mishaps during that parks' existence. These accounts were gathered by utilizing coroner repots, superintendent reports and Freedom of information requests.
To articulate that the park service doesn't keep records is disingenuous and an outright LIE. A more accurate description would be that the Park Service won't give them to him. Perhaps it's because of his shady past and his known associations with all things Bigfoot.
Cherry picked reports cobbled together by Paulides who is woefully ill-informed and ignorant of modern search and rescue techniques along with the effects of hypothermia that spews purposely deceitful garbage.
Missing 411 Eastern and Western editions are the new books out by David Paul Paulides. These recent works follow on the heels of "Tribal Bigfoot" and the "The Hoopa Project". These books are specifically about Bigfoot. According to Paulides, he embarked on a 3 year and 7000 man-hour quest to uncover missing people in the national parks. He filled numerous Freedom of Information Act Requests and "documents to support the stories in these books were found through exhaustive searches of various periodicals' archives". The Author became interested in the subject of missing persons when, "There was a point in my law enforcement career when I worked as a detective attached to a special team investigating high profile cases. One of the cases we participated in was a series of missing girls from California".
Paulides has a prestigious 20 year background in law enforcement as a detective and investigator that enables him to gather facts and interview witnesses to get to the facts of the case. On his NABS Blog #91 he states in part, "he chose to retire after twenty years, and no one in his group lies". The reality and truth of the matter is far stranger than anyone could imagine. David Paul Paulides was an Officer with the San Jose Police Department until 1996. He was charged and indicted for a misdemeanor crime that involved falsely obtaining autographs while fraudulently misrepresenting his position within the police department. His tenure fell short of the requisite 20 years required to retire and he was forced to leave with only 16.5 years. His last duty assignment was in the Court Liaison Office. Most likely he left voluntarily in lieu of being prosecuted and given an option to quit. On an ancillary note with this background I am curious as to what Senior Executive Position he has or had held in the Technology Sector. From what I can discern the North American Bigfoot Search is Mr. Paulides. Furthermore, Paulides has never been on a Search and Rescue team, or participated in any organized SAR. This book is a discredit and a slap in the face to those men and women that are.
SOURCE(S):
* San Jose Mercury News
* 2011 SJ Police and Fire Retirement Boards' vote to award David Paul Paulides a Deferred Vesting for 16.5
years as a Police Officer.
Paulides' missing 411 is a continuation of his earlier two works. They are repackaged with a new twist in his search for this elusive creature. He doesn't come out and state it emphatically, but these editions are nothing more than his belief that Bigfoot is taking people in the woods, across the county. Anyone with a general comprehension of the English language can establish this nexus, if you think otherwise I suggest a remedial class in reading comprehension. He also builds you up with his prestigious law enforcement career and his over inflated and exaggerated investigative skills in order for you to buy into his mythic self portrayals that are stratospheric in nature. Paulides is so blatantly agenda driven is a proven liar, a fraud and is only out to promote his website and sell books. To that end the "facts" as he presents them are seriously questionable and under the surface are not really facts at all, just his cherry picking articles in an attempt to shoehorn, his ideas to fit his theory.
The clusters that the Paulides describes are vague and general and he attributes them as unique factors, these factors are:
* Rural settings
* Dogs
* Bloodhounds/ Canines can't track scent
* Disabled/ Impaired
* Fever
* Conscious Semi Conscience
* Kidnapping,
* Afternoon Disappearances
* Swamps and Briar Patches
* Berries
* Clothing removed
* Missing found in areas previously searched
These last two factors are interesting due to Paulides' outright refusal to acknowledge paradoxical undressing as well as terminal burrowing, which are both related to Hypothermia. He is so dreadfully ill-informed relative to both of these factors that they could account for a MAJORITY of the cases outlined in "Missing 411" I agree that there are a handful of cases that fall into the unexplainable, or victims of a crime category, but these cases are a small handful of the cases Paulides paints. I consider the stories that were previously written about in other credible works that he coopted and reprinted in this category. Furthermore, they would not have filled one book let alone two. The vast majority of the cases in Missing 411 are not bizarre or mysterious as Paulides would have you believe; rather they follow the general conventions of a lost person, especially if those people are suffering from the effects of hypothermia. The conspicuous denial of these factors enables Paulides to shoehorn his ideas into a serious flawed theory!
I was initially interested in this book after he was interviewed by George Knapp on Coast to Coast AM. I was hesitant at first, due to some of his other controversial views on other topics, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt based on his dialog in the interview. After reading the Western Edition, I obtained a copy of the Eastern edition. In the Eastern edition Paulides wrote about two children in Maryland. They were Eldridge Albright who went missing from Woodstock Maryland in 1941, and Otis T. Mason who went missing in 1949 from Colesville Maryland. These cases were placed with Pennsylvania because of its close proximity to other cases. This was the first of many contradictions as well as the first of many facts that weren't thoroughly checked. Woodstock Maryland is approximately 67 miles from the PA State line and Colesville Maryland is approximately 70 miles. Both are nowhere near PA or any case near there. Is this an instance of shoehorning a case to fit the theory? Conversely, if he physically investigated these locations, how could he not realize they were anything but near to Pennsylvania?
* SOURCE: ADC map company
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boring.
must be 2000 babies
