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I'd also add that in both cases I was left feeling kind of foolish. But a common response I see it not a foolish admission of error but an automatic reliance on conspiracy.
When recounting the monkey story to one friend he jokingly suggested that the Forest Service probably found the baby bigfoot and replaced it with a dead porcupine to discredited anybody who saw the bigfoot before they could hide it. He was joking, but if you listen to Art Bell you see this thinking all the time.
Or in the recent stories about "the healing power of prayer" having failed a study. While a positive result would have been touted a negative result produced conspiracy theories to explain away the failure (well God wouldn't let himself been shown through such a study so he just let those people die rather than help).
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