Yeah, there's nothing today that can't be turned into a scam. But at least some serious scientists are engaged in separating the wheat from the chaff now. Where will it all lead? Who knows? I don't. I'm just glad some honest and unbiased scientists are working on it. Sure beats just writing such a long-standing and persistent phenomena as simply "superstition." And I promise you, spend one night in the swamps, and you WILL take it a LOT more seriously! Guaranteed! Whether you'd admit it or not is another question, of course.
If it's never found, speculation will go on indefinitely. If good scientific evidence IS found, though, it'd solve a mystery that has spanned centuries. I'd like to see it solved, and the only way to do that is prove they actually exist. Tough situation, obviously, and I can't believe some of the idiots, like the BFRO on TV, who go out looking for them totally unarmed! If Bigfoot meant anyone any harm, I think those folks would have become scat long ago, with all their inane shenanigans and approaches! It's obvious there's not a real hunter among them. But real hunters would be very boring to watch on TV, so .... we get what we get.