Comments on: Ketchum Sasquatch DNA Study Published!

By: stevedlocke

stevedlocke — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:12:30 +0000

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By: dconstrukt

dconstrukt — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:40:16 +0000

ya, i tend to agree with you guys, thats why i posted the question.

to me, there’s TOO MANY red flags here to take seriously right now.

By: asecretcountry

asecretcountry — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:30:45 +0000

dconstrukt responds:
February 14th, 2013 at 9:34 am
just curious …why you guys are hating on her/this report?
is it the evidence itself?
or the way its being presented?
I think its all fascinating… however she leaves the door open for skeptics and haters because of the way certain things are done. (the journal/site etc)

Simple..we can read and think.
Its the “evidence” and the hype/presentation…and that awful video.
The new vernacular here is…
hater = common sense.
And the inverse of that would be for the gullible supporters of ketchum would be = face palm and running for cover.

By: Waya

Waya — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:49:40 +0000

I haven't been able to read all the comments (I will read them later after my class tonight.) So I don't know if anyone else has posted this or not. I found the article above and it seems that Ketchum has gained the rights to a journal and then renamed it. I guess it was the only way she could get published.

By: odingirl

odingirl — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:27:23 +0000

dconstrukt, as I’ve mentioned on another post about this, I am neither a skeptic nor a hater. I appreciate good science and all of the hard work that goes into supporting or disproving a hypothesis and rigorous peer review. I work in an environment of evidence-based science and I’m aware of the high standards that researchers are held to. Not being a scientist myself, I rely on the opinion of experts in the field – such as the gentleman who has read Melba’s paper and was quoted on Doubtful News describing the DNA samples as “a mess”.

Is it the ‘evidence’? Yes, although at this point it’s the evidence we still don’t seem to have that’s more telling.

The way it’s being presented? Absolutely. I know of no credible researcher who spends so much time on social media posting cryptic (pardon the pun) messages, self justification and bad video…this has hardly served Melba well.

Too many inconsistencies, delays, deflections, and excuses, not to mention the apparent lack of meaningful evidence (I say apparent because Ketchum’s paper remains largely out of the reach of most of us at this point, which is odd for such a presumeably groundbreaking discovery).

Penn and Teller must be chuckling their arses off right at the moment.

By: dconstrukt

dconstrukt — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:34:54 +0000

just curious …why you guys are hating on her/this report?

is it the evidence itself?

or the way its being presented?

I think its all fascinating… however she leaves the door open for skeptics and haters because of the way certain things are done. (the journal/site etc)

By: Jeremy Shea via Facebook

Jeremy Shea via Facebook — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:33:48 +0000

This is a brand new website with no history of actual publications. I can find no record of this being a real “Journal” or any past issues or papers they have published. She has just created this as a way to fool the naive into thinking she has been accepted by a real peer reviewed journal.

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By: squatchman

squatchman — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:27:15 +0000

How can people believe Ketchum’s story which is full of baloney. I am a sasquatch believer, but this is absolutely stupid. It’s because of people like Ketchum that the sasquatch is rejected by many people.

By: asecretcountry

asecretcountry — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:57:02 +0000

Ketchum..the sceptics secret weapon that keeps on giving.
All her supporters are going to be eating more than humble pie it seems..and the video that was going to be released..dear god.

By: simianfever

simianfever — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:28:02 +0000

I would have found it more “odd” if it had been published in a respectable journal. This makes sense.