Occam's Razor according to Thom Powell's Book: The Locals (An Excerpt)

From Thom Powell's book: The Locals:

"Occam's Razor" is a scientific principle used to resolve confusing data and competing interpretation's of that data. When several possible explanations might explain some puzzling data, Occam's Razor instructs the scientist to look first and look hardest at the simplest of the several possible explanations.

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When trying to resolve the Bigfoot phenomenon, several explanations might be used to explain the fact that thousands of eyewitnesses have claimed to see Bigfoot-like creatures. The explanations include mass hallucination by eyewitnesses, widespread and sophisticated hoaxing, wide spread bald face lying, and a population of flat faced bears that run around on two legs.

All of these explanations become more complicated to resolve and more improbable in the much simpler possibility that there is a population of Bigfoot animals that have been somehow scientifically overlooked.

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