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My personal opinion isn't one people who ask such questions usually want to hear .. so .. you've been warned. I think Todd Standing is a straight-up hoaxer. I have not seen anything even vaguely legitimate with his stamp on it. My .. suspicion .. is that at some point long ago he had an authentic "thing" happen but was unable to substantiate it so he did the unthinkable: he tried to manufacture the evidence he could not otherwise produce and he got caught at it. It is too late for him. There is nothing he can do, ever, that won't tainted by his past hoaxes. Worse, any other researcher who is seen with him is tainted as well .. brings their judgement into doubt. MIB

SPOT ON! Standing is a hoaxer who has duped many well meaning folk like Les Stroud. But if you ask other more well known researchers (as i have), they will tell you he's a fraud. But...they always add the caveat of that being their opinion as apparently Standing is very sue happy. His blinky "Squatch" puppet heads are laughable at best. Anything he's attached to gets an automatic "no" from me.

I think before you can ask that question and expect much of a discussion you have to have some agreement on what "The Sasquatch Mystery" **is**. I'm not sure you and I have the same question which might be why we bump heads regarding answers. I think I have a full enough answer to the question that brought me into the "research world." Certainly other things have come along via that .. exposure (??) .. and those remain only tentatively answered .. or less .. but they are not my initial nor fundamental question. In my view it is not possible for a government to have "ethics". Ethics requires an awareness of self which in turn requires a self to be aware of. Government is not even an inanimate object, never mind being an individual. It does sometimes behave as one but at best it has the maturity of a 4 year old: fear, anger, no control, and immense power. Certainly no sense of right and wrong. It can't be punished, can't be sent to the corner for a time-out. It's a concept, not a "thing." No accountability, no conscience, and without those, ethics is a meaningless concept.