Recommendation: "Bernard Heuvelmans, Pity, and the Dictators of Science"
Bernard Heuvelmans, the "Father of Cryptozoology", is frequently portrayed as either a genius and prophet or an incompetent fool; in large part because the focus is always on the facticity of his claims rather than their cultural context. As a result Heuvelmans exists as little more than a caricature of himself in the contemporary cryptozoological literature. But who was he really?
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