Mermaids Don't Exist? Or Do They? Who Do You Believe?

Just the fact that the government went through the trouble to say that mermaids don't exist, tells me just the opposite.

Mermaids Dont Exist
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/mermaids-dont-exist
Have you had a mermaid sighting. Federal Agency Squashes Mermaid Rumors. Some believe they are as real as fairies, or saints, or ghosts. The recent news from NOAA that mermaids are, in fact, a myth resulted in a flurry of media coverage and everything from mockery of the government to broken-hearted little girls.

Government Agency Destroys Our Dreams by Revealing That Mermaids Aren't Real
http://jezebel.com/5923513/government-agency-destroys-our-dreams-by-revealing-that-mermaids-arent-real
It appears to be in response to a show that Animal Planet recently aired called Mermaids: The Body Found, in which they looked at whether there is "a kernel of truth that lives beneath the legend of the mythic mermaid".

Are mermaids real - National Ocean Service
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/mermaids.html
Artistic expression of mermaid Mermaid art in Norfolk, Virginia NOAA Photo Library. 'The Jewel of Norfolk,' a fanciful mermaid sculpture located in Norfolk, Virginia. 19th century artist rendering of mermaids in the ocean 19th century mermaid drawing, NOAA Photo Library.

 Mermaids News, Video and Gossip - Gawker
http://gawker.com/mermaids/
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently published a post on their "Ocean Facts" newsfeed titled "No Evidence of Aquatic Humanoids Has Ever Been Found," sort of debunking claims of mermaids' existence, but mostly giving everyone a great purple prose-y history lesson on the origins of the merm...