It is a known and very openly spoken about point that scientist do not even want to risk their reputation by attempting to study a cryptid. Look it up because right now you are very wrong.
Come on. Why strain? There are well funded, zoology field studies underway all over the world. We search high and low for new creatures. Criptids are found every year. If you don't understand how someone is willing to jump up and claim Cold Fusion, without any peer review, then you need to re-examine how science is done.
People have jumped up and claimed Big Foot, every year. It is no different, except the Cold Fusion guys were actual researchers, so they shut up.
This is a great quote: My views on the tyranny of opinion put to voice.
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." --John F. Kennedy