Comments on: Sasquatch Genome Project Q & A

By: Dent Snider

Dent Snider — Sun, 05 May 2013 00:12:14 +0000

I feel that Melba Ketchum is one of the “very” few scientists that I have read or heard, talking of “Sasquatch” that is telling the truth. The naysayers and “critics” are the ones who have some “vested”/monetary, interest in keeping Big Foot in the category of a “GREAT APE” of some kind because that way these “people” (the Sasquatch) have no rights and can be exploited in any and all ways imaginable. Every “critic” if looked at closely will have this in common. They care nothing for the truth, for these people, or anyone other than themselves. They know that Melba’s study is credible and true and are afraid their income stream will be adversely affected by her findings. She is a heroic scientist. They are self serving cowards.

By: LordBalto

LordBalto — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:35:56 +0000

For those of you who cannot afford the $30.00 to actually read the article, the basic results were as follows: Mitochondrial DNA (exclusively from the female line): 16 haplotypes from 30 genomes, all human, most European and Middle Eastern with some examples of African and Native American genomes. This work was done by Family Tree DNA, with whom I have had personal dealings (Family Tree DNA is a legitimate lab), and two other independent laboratories. Analyses of Russian and Siberian samples performed outside of this study have confirmed the existence of human mitochondrial DNA in all of the samples. All 24 samples upon which whole genome analysis was conducted failed to meet the 95% threshhold for SNP (single-nucleotide polymorphism) in human DNA. In plain English, 5% of DNA pairs were not those found in human beings. I should point out here that chimpanzees are 96-98% identical to humans, so we are clearly looking at a nonhuman species here. In two particular samples, 26 and 140, using "inclusive primate organism taxids," the two samples, which were determined to be from the same species, showed a closer similarity to the otolemur ancestors of man than they did to gorillas or chimpanzees. The implication of this, in my own personal opinion, is that the sasquatch is ancestral to humans rather than any of the great apes. Of particular interest, four of the samples showed the presence of the allele for red hair in humans, some sasquatch having been reported to have had reddish hair. I would recommend that anyone who wishes to discuss this topic actually buy the article at denovojournal.com. Otherwise the discussion will simply degenerate into another mud pie fight between the believers and the skeptics.

By: LordBalto

LordBalto — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:48:45 +0000

Mr Joshua said while tossing back another beer:

“You don’t need long papers and links to sum this up. You just need 15 words. My name is Melba Ketchum and I am a fraud looking for a quick buck.”

Well I’ll be damned. A real psychic who knows what the contents of a scientific paper are without even reading it. I am so sick and tired of fake skeptics like you that I could puke. Read the damned article before you start flapping your jaw, buster.

By: DWA

DWA — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:41:02 +0000

It must be noted that the Bigfoot research community, while including many dedicated, well-meaning and enthusiastic people, has generally not learned from accumulated knowledge gained through sighting reports, eye witness testimony, Native American accounts, or the experiences of habituators and long-term witnesses. Instead, Bigfoot research has been held back by a culture of competition and contentiousness, and a pattern of cyclical debate that disregards the field’s own data and observances. It is the opinion of the SGP that this behavior, and the lack of adequate professional involvement, has prevented progress in the field, which is why the idea that Sasquatch were apes has been so pervasive.

I’ll buy all of this but the last sentence, which is wrong.

One would have to, through concerted effort, “disregard the field’s own data and observances [sic]” to believe that the ape conclusion is contrary to the bulk of the evidence.

But the inability of the field to build on its lessons learned? Oboyoboy. For sure, that.

And this is what happens when the scientific mainstream abandons a field to amateurs. We are, what, surprised?

By: MR JOSHUA

MR JOSHUA — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:49:18 +0000

You don’t need long papers and links to sum this up. You just need 15 words. My name is Melba Ketchum and I am a fraud looking for a quick buck.

By: edsbigfoot

edsbigfoot — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 02:45:22 +0000

Well, darn, it looks like the link is no good for now and the domain needs to be renewed. If the cryptomundo moderator has the entire list and would like to post it that’s fine, but it’s long:) Sorry about that all, I read thru it, thought it was interesting, copied the link and sent it in….and then, *poof*…gone for now, hopefully they’ll renew it.