The Houston Chronicle’s Eric Berger does some unraveling of Ketchum and the claims she made in the news release.

For starters, Berger notes that while Ketchum has 27 years of genetic research experience during her career as a veterinarian, her company, DNA Diagnostics, has received an “F” rating from the Better Business Bureau.

But more important, Ketchum has not allowed scientific peer review of her findings.

“That is a massive red flag. Real research scientists almost never preannounce their research findings,” Berger writes. “In effect she is using the mantle of science to confer credibility on her discovery, without actually deserving the credibility.”

And finally, where exactly did Ketchum get her DNA sample? After all, if she was working from a reliable source, that alone might be the real story because no physical evidence of Bigfoot exists on record.

As it turns out, Ketchum says her DNA sample was obtained from a blueberry bagel left in the backyard of a Michigan home that, according to the owner, sees regular visits from Sasquatch creatures.

Discuss.

I said above, responding to lancemoody, why the public doesn’t take this seriously.

It’s easy to focus on the evidence and ignore the sideshows. I view this as a sideshow.

talk about screwing up a potentially major event… 5 years to get DNA, the “holy grail” for bigfooters (next to a body) and this is how it unfolds.

and people wonder why the public doesn’t take this stuff seriously.

What would be exciting isnt human dna its the other, whatever that may be ! As you say-up to now this is unclassified and now maybe the time to do that and fit it to all the historical evidence such as eyewitness accounts. Why we’ll have more imformation than we have for we have for denesova !

Of course I am jumping the gun but dna evidence of sasquatch is overdue.

I would ask you to think about two rather contemporary examples of discoveries with profound significance to every person on this planet – “Cold Fusion” or Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, and Anthropomorphic Global Warming / Climate Change. You may be surprised to know that “Cold Fusion” whatever it is exactly that Pons and Flieschmann observed has been replicated by hundreds of Scientists around the world including the US Navy SPAWAR Lab. Climate Change has been the subject of literally thousands of scientific peer reviewed studies all of which reached the same conclusion as the US Pentagon – namely that the Global Climate is warming dramatically, quickly and unnaturally due to man made pollution and that this warming is dangerous to all life on earth.

Both of these subjects have many times the number of scientific corroboration than 1, 2, or 3 Bigfoot Studies. In fact the science on each is near unanimous yet many or maybe most of you reading this right now believe that Cold Fusion was shown to be a fraud or poor science and you may suspect that Climate Change is some kind of Liberal Conspiracy or at very least an open question with a great deal of scientific debate pro and con – if that’s what you think – you’re wrong though you are far from alone. So why is that?

I will explain it in greater detail soon if people or Loren are interested, but in a nut-shell, these discoveries threaten the status quo – they threaten the pocketbooks of tremendously wealthy corporate interests like Big Oil and Big Coal, they threaten the income and egos of all the Professors and Scientists who have collected Billions of Dollars of Government Grants studying “Hot Fusion” and trying to build a Hot Fusion Reactor and on and on. In fact I’m sure you are aware of the long history of scientists who were rejected and ridiculed in their day for their new science only to be posthumously recognized as heros and geniuses.

The way our modern media and establishment work their magic is this: all they have to do is have a handful of nay-sayers ready to sow doubt and make determined and authoritarian sounding criticisms of any new science ready and then they attack with coordinated ferocity. There is a huge and well established network of paid scientists, think tanks and flat out propagandists ready on a moments notice to attack and play on the previously established prejudice against things like Bigfoot.

So, my point here is that we of open and hopeful minds and honest hearts need to brace ourselves for the onslaught against any scientific study that affirms Bigfoot’s existence. In fact, I see its already started as evidenced here on this site. We should stand behind these scientists and urge them to work together, no, demand that they do. I think Dr Ketchum and Dr Meldrum are sincere and probably courageous people. I didn’t even post my background on my Crypto profile because I know first hand how nasty things can get these days.

My point here is this: if Dr Ketchum or anyone else can get their paper through peer review (a big if) it will be attacked and even 10 such papers will not cause a sea change at all because that’s the way the world works these days. I thought if you all know this going in it may help everyone stay aboard ship when the inevitable storm hits.

(That’s all she has admitted to finding; the hybridization “theory” she has put forth to explain the presence of unclassifiable DNA material is of course pure speculation)

If you are referring to the above press release I cannot see a reference to the nature of the samples nor that they were just hair. This could be important as certain body items could reinforce the case for dna, in context, being a type specimen. I understand a finger nail was one of the samples for instance. Media diagnostics at this point are not giving any imformation about the nature of the samples.

Getting correct results isn’t about alacrity and doubt it was possible to sequence a complete human genome very rapidly in 2008. The technology has and is advancing very rapidly.

Dr Ketchum stated early on that she was going to do the study by the book, including peer review by appropriate persons etc. I can see no reason to doubt that she has done so ! Nor that the samples taken do not have context or the results she has obtained will not be repeatable by those that dare do so. The fact is further imformation is not available at this point but should be available in the near future.

Clearly there is risk that some samples will be sent with malicious intentions and even doctored as I think we are at a point where that could happen now dna manipulation is a computer game and an alternative to dna has been designed. These are hurdles not insumountable obstacles!

Personally I am certain sasquatch exists because of the accumulation of evidence therefore it must be possible to find evidence/proof especially dna and it is a failure of science that it has not done so not sasquatch enthusiasts. more so now with modern developments and imformation that is coming to light. Until now the dna situation has been as a desert led by the new york labs and Todd Disotell who found nearly all putative sasquatch samples as either contaminated or your normal humans. A reputation built on not finding anything new!

Dr Ketchum’s efforts have been heroic in organising the dna project and now waiting for the result of peer review. I imagine this is a very difficult process in view of the subject and revolution in thinking implied. I think the nearest up to now was Dr Sykes who got an amazing result but then retracted it as he felt he had an insufficient sample but now being reported as bear (in addition to two other bear results from two other samples).

I do not expect Dr Ketchum has everything right but what a huge advance is involved from virtually nothing to dna results which can be poked about and polished and talked about and admired ad infinitum. At least we can expect a two step forward situation if one step back!

But here, as it stands, it is just another, in a long line of “proof” that has soured mainstream science away from the Bigfoot community. Until the results are recognized and published in a mainstream science periodical, we should do well to keep our fingers crossed, hoping the improbable will indeed come to pass while keeping the eternal flame of curiosity lit that guides each of us down this path.