Paranormal Research and Cryptozoology should be taken more seriously in the Scientific Community

First off, I'm so happy you know debating terminology. You can't possibly imagine my extasy in knowing this. I happen to know some too, like attacking the straw man, which means the opponent challenges small, insignificant issues, as they cannot come up with good reasons to oppose the main point. What special little beavers we are. I am setting forth the parameters of this debate only because of past experience, not for the want of an easy win, which I do not expect. I've found many opponents will go off on tangents, arguing more on a mis-phrased sentence or minor fallacy, rather than the main topic. Now you know what your supposed to be arguing on, the exact polar opposite of my argument. Don't think of it as a dictation, so much as a guideline. I will not touch on this further. science: In a more restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method [the body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge], as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research. Now, tell me, how is it that PR and CZ (Paranormal Research and CryptoZoology) is not attempting to acquire new knowledge through research? How is setting up expeditions with state of the art equipment attempting to gain evidence of the supernatural and mysterious? You claim that for something to be studied scientifically, it must no longer be fully unexplained. Well, there are explanations for many ghost events and most CZ animals. True, not fully explained, but also, not fully unexplained either. As to anomalous, P Researchers are able to predict and expect ghost sightings based on witness accounts, in some cases gaining video evidence and EVP's (electronic voice phenomenon). With CZ, scientists are able to summarize general areas, again based on witness reports, where the animal in question could be living. They too, occasionally find evidence. In both cases, they use hypothesis, experimentation, and observation, to reach conclusions, processes which every other 'accepted' scientist does as well. They use the scientific method as well using techniques to investigate (video, sound, witness accounts), they acquire new knowledge/evidence (sound and video evidence, physical), and correct previous knowledge (this includes debunking some accounts, and also adding support for others). You say that the fields cannot be specific scientific fields if they are integrated within other ones. Well, what you seemed to have missed is that I am not suggesting they have their own special branch, but rather the scientific community actively accept them into the appropriate field. CZ with regular zoology and PR with physics/other. Though, I don't think it impossible that they could not be deserving of their own branch, but that is not my proposition. Your point is void. Your specific argument on CZ is that the animals must be not hidden, and absolutely identifiable in a zoological catalogue for the research of mysterious animals to be a viable form of research. You don't see the contradiction in that definition? Their goal is to prove that these species exist. The difference between them and regular zoologist who find new species is that RZ's have physical evidence. Before they got that, every creature that is now accepted as 'real' was as vague and mysterious as bigfoot or jackalope. Once a specimen, whether dead or alive, is found they will be accepted as 'real' researchers. However, no scientific proof has EVER been discovered without a discovery process, which is exactly what CZ's are doing. Anecdotal evidence also cannot be tossed out, as it is still evidence, just as personal accounts of wars, crimes, and tragedies are. They've proved to be helpful in the past in scientific fields in advancing their knowledge such as medicine, archeology, and physics. Thus, it falls under "a body of techniques for investigating phenomena", which as I've said, IS apart of the scientific method. You have still failed to show that CZ and PR do not have some basis in science. They follow scientific protocol, using the scientific method, to come up with scientific evidence/proof. So explain to me again how this is not science?