Why are claims of the paranormal and Big Foot not documented by real professional scientists?

Question

Why is all the documentation done by weekend hobbyests playing scientist?

Answer 1

Because scientists prefer to document real evidence not some sheep guts stuffed into a gorilla suit and sprinkled with opossum DNA.

Answer 2

Fear of being laughed at. Closed mindeness. Failing to remember that what we know of physics today got people "reprimanded" before.

Coincidentally, if you look at old books of paranormal studies, many of the things are now being studied by academic science.

Funny how these things worked out.

I'm sure Newton is laughing somewhere.

See also teleportation.

Answer 3

Because it's not 'real professional' science.

Answer 4

If you were a scientist,would you wish to be pigeonholed for publishing paranormal pap?

Answer 5

Because there is nothing to document.

Answer 6

I don't think they want to get their good names involved with questionable pseudo-sciences.  However, the case of the Bell Witch was documented by scientists of the time.

Answer 7

How many scientists would get funding to look for Bigfoot? Never gonna happen and that's why they don't.

Does Bigfoot exist? It IS possible, improbable but not impossible.  

Answer 8

Because it is c**p. There is no physical evidence, everything the nuts come up with is junk.

You would need something concrete like a body. You will never find a corpse, skeleton, or fossil. Not even scat or hair can be found.

Scientists do not want to be rideculed for a wild goose chase like bigfoot, little green men, loch ness monster, and the like.