Let's lay aside the character assassination accusation for now.

Let's look at the "black swan" analogy.
It's more appropriate.

NICK? Since you are of European ancestory,
you should know that for 1,000's of years, prior
to Columbus, Magellan, Tasman and Cook,
European scholars, natural philosophers [scientists] and intellects in their hubris and ignorance thought that all Swans on Earth where "white" because that's the Swans they were familiar with...

Then...after Tasman, and especially during and after Cook, when white men arriving in Australia stumbled upon "Black" Swans was the
paradigm of "White Swans being the only legitimate Swans on Earth" shattered.

What does that say about this latest North American cryptozoological [possibly ex-crypto] revelation?
ANSWER: Wait for the last word and the DNA results.

It's ironic, Nick...Since you are from Australia...a land
containing species like a large mammal with a pouch,
another mammal that lays eggs and looks like a taxidermist's
fraudulent work, a snake with three heads, a "bear" that looks
more like a stunted cub and behaves like a sloth.

If dark-skinned aborigines had encountered Europeans
in India, instead of the subcontinent, bearing tales of
these strange creatures, what would hubristic, racist
Europeans thought of the tales?