Yes I know, Rex Gilroy is the “Yowie Man”. Debate over the existence of the controversial Yowie seems to be part and parcel of the whole Rex Gilroy package. Yowies are of no interest to my team’s research.

Within academia circles, there is a culture of intellectual prejudice when it comes to Yowies and the Gilroys. The mere mention of these massive hairy hominids in a written paper is a guarantee of an ‘E minus’ grade, their mention in lecture a guaranteed loss of posting. And if an academic or government official accepts the validity of any science or archaeology Rex Gilroy presents, so too, through one degree of separation, they are also presumed to accept the existence of Yowies.