Still assert that the scientific community's assiduous skepticism regarding extant hominids is based on prejudicial perspectives held over from the universal cultural superstitions established prior to 1000 AD in Europe.
Once cast as supernatural to support the dominant cultural perspective that among manlike beings, only man is natural and good; other purportedly manlike beings were by contrast, and by definition, evil as well as supernatural. By extension, those who encountered such extant hominids came into contact with evil, and must be suspected of either attracting, inviting, or being under the influence of evil.
Today, the scientific community's prevailing attitude carries over these superstitions and prejudices. Extant hominids have long been considered supernatural, therefore they cannot and do not exist in reality according to accepted scientific BELIEF. Modern witnesses are no longer viewed as tainted by evil, but are still VIEWED WITH CONTEMPT, and subjective skeptics, cloaked in prevailing scientific BELIEF, originating in SUPERSTITION extend this CONTEMPT to the body of evidence comprising all witness sightings.
CONTEMPT and SCIENCE do not mix.
CONTEMPT is an indicator of BELIEF, not TRUTH, and is an indicator of scientific PREJUDICE.
PREJUDICE is not OBJECTIVE. PREJUDICE does not seek TRUTH. PREJUDICE seeks only to justify itself.