...even that would not matter, if she simply released the data she claims to have. there is nothing stopping her fro doing that now - today! The paper she claims already gives her scientific precedence, even before it is published, so there can be no valid reason to continue to hide those data!
This whole saga could be over tommorrow - literally tommorrow if Melba did one thing. make her data available for independant analysis. ...
Instead we get people knashing their hands and complaining that they are being disrespected etc! All of that goes away, release the data, in 24 hours, you are either going to be a new scientific superstar! or the next Pons and Fleishman!
... Melba made and continues to make a long series of conciencious decisions that allow this soap opera to continue - when she could end it once and for all, withing 24 hours, with her being completely vindicated!
The ball is in her court, but i ask you, why would she prefer this dog and pony show to continue, instead of raising herself into the scientific hall of fame overnight?
CWB
Awesome post, Cal.
Let me speculate on why she won't do what you suggest.
Ketchum is in an odd situation. It seems that the only assets she has, other than "blue sky",
may be the "ownership" of
results of sequencing of the nuDNA of three samples, and possibly the 20 sequences of mtDNA, that supposed are from "bigfoots". In fact,
we don't even know whether she owns those results. If Daddy Bigbucks had any sense, he would have purchased those when he gave Ketchum a whole lot of money.
Apparently, by her own recent admission,
she did not do the sequencing herself. Her role was simply to convince people to send her samples, and do some of the extracting ie much of what did was she just receive samples and send them out, and then receive the sequence results, with or without analysis/comments by someone else.
Further, she seems unable to process/synthesize/analyze/write up the results in a coherent and convincing manner.
The point being that, going forward, she calls herself "Scientist, Forensics and Hominid Research; but at present she doesn't seem to have a marketable skill set on the latter, other than possibly knowing which labs to send specimens to. I could be wrong.
So how can she monetize the sequencing results that she (or possibly Daddy Bigbucks) "owns"? The only way I can think of is to patent some sort of rapid and cheap "bigfoot DNA test," and/or write a book/DVD. I have my doubts about her ability to do the former, and the latter is what she seems to have done, using the Erickson footage and a lot of interview stuff.
Both of these strategies require some kind of validation of her theories, but not necessarily a scientific article authored BY HERSELF. But it would have to be a favorable article.
So, to summarize thoughts as to why doesn't she release the data:
1) she may not own the data
2) she is very interested in getting a positive scientific paper published and she isn't confident that her data will convince a real scientist.
I think she will continue submitting and revising, just as she has always said she would, but now with a substantial amount of help from Daddy Bigbucks, protecting his investment; this will be "an offer she can't refuse." Eventually a watered-down version will appear somewhere, a paper that she can point to as some sort of validation for her forthcoming monetizations.
I could also give you my major college football bowl predictions....
