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My five favorite responses to the Loch Ness Debunking.

Posted on April 21, 2014April 21, 2014 By Andrew Thaler 1 Comment on My five favorite responses to the Loch Ness Debunking.
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I didn’t expect a throw-away post I made last Friday debunking an alleged image of the Loch Ness Monster to go viral, but this is the internet and these things happen. As you might expect, my inbox, social media accounts, and this website have been inundated with comments about that post, how wrong I must be, what’s really going on, and why X theory is clearly the correct one. For the record, it’s still a boat wake, but in light of the amount of attention the post received, I updated it with a bit more information about how that image could occur.

With that out of the way, here are my five favorite responses to the latest Loch Ness Monster sighting:

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No, we didn’t find the Loch Ness Monster with Apple Maps

Posted on April 18, 2014April 21, 2014 By Andrew Thaler 30 Comments on No, we didn’t find the Loch Ness Monster with Apple Maps
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It’s been a long time since we’ve had a good debunking-random-monster-sighting post. The ready availability of global satellite image databases is a powerful tool for exploration and monitoring but has also led to a boom in pseudoscience “discoveries” by people not familiar with how these images are produced or just willing to suspend disbelief for their pet woo.

This morning my inbox exploded with articles about the definitive Loch Ness monster sighting. The accompanying image is a low-resolution satellite image of a boat wake, available, apparently, only on Apple Maps. There’s really no deconstruction needed, it’s a boat wake. Compare this image from Loch Ness:

Nessie? No.
Nessie? No.

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Watch Blue Pints Episode 2: Sea Level Rise, Seafood Fraud, Shipwrecked Aliens, and more!

Posted on June 28, 2012October 27, 2013 By Andrew Thaler
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Watch Episode 2 here:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijPEW7x93N0

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Our favorite sea monsters – Nessie (#6)

Posted on September 6, 2010September 7, 2010 By David Shiffman 2 Comments on Our favorite sea monsters – Nessie (#6)
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One of the most famous “sea monsters” of all time – so famous that her outline graces the Ocean of Pseudoscience Week logo – actually lives in a lake. I’m talking, of course, about “Nessie”, the Loch Ness monster.

Local reports of a bizarre creature inhabiting the Scottish lake go back over a thousand years, but the story became popularized in the 1930’s when Dr. Robert Kenneth Wilson took a now-famous photograph.

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