AUTHOR
Charles Paxton
2 Articles
Charles Paxton is a statistical ecologist at the University of St Andrews who also teaches scientific and critical thinking. He also has an interest in the science and history behind reports of historical sea and freshwater monsters (details can be found at www.sea-monster.info). He is not sure if he is a cryptozoologist or not.
Creating a Monster: the case of Eachy, the Wikipedia monster of Bassenthwaite
The online life (and eventual death) of Eachy, the monster of Bassenthwaite lake, shows the potential risk of feedback loops in Wikipedia's citation policies
In Search of Monsters? A defence of cryptozoology
From the archive, Charles Paxton argues that cryptozoology is far from an unscientific field, even if the monsters it studies don't actually exist
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