Bigfoot DNA

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calwaterbear said:
With the new techniques, we can pull very small samples of DNA and ID it. The analogy they use in Law enforcement is: if you walked by a swimming pool and spit in it, we could pick that up.
So simply smashing into the guts of carrion eating flys and mosquitos is revealing DNA sequences of rare animals.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21320626
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Well, bigfoot's DNA is special, of course. Bigfoot is nonconformal on most fronts.

Especially when you try to pin it down...
 
The first place I'd look for mosquitos who have ingested bigfoot DNA is a 300 ft radius around Justin Smeja's house and also around his place of work; and anywhere he goes fishing.

I don't think I'm wrong on this.
 
parnassus said:
The first place I'd look for mosquitos who have ingested bigfoot DNA is a 300 ft radius around Justin Smeja's house and also around his place of work; and anywhere he goes fishing.

I don't think I'm wrong on this.
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Then, we clone Bigfoot. Finally, we'll have the monkey!
 
parnassus said:
The first place I'd look for mosquitos who have ingested bigfoot DNA is a 300 ft radius around Justin Smeja's house and also around his place of work; and anywhere he goes fishing.

I don't think I'm wrong on this.
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:D It worked in Jurassic Park, why not?
 
I haven't lurked the BFF for a while. What fallacy does Muldur claim skeptics are guilty of for dismissing the Ketchum hoax "paper"? :D
 
"Melba Ketchum’s Bigfoot DNA Study: The Questionable Ethics Of Creating A Journal to Bypass Peer-Review"
It's worth reading IMO.
...So here is a possible timeline:

She (Ketchum) registers on Zoobank on October 25, 2012. [13]
She registers the name of her article and the Bigfoot species name on November 18, 2012.
She registers the Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Exploration in Zoology on Zoobank on January 9, 2013.
She creates an online page for the journal on Scholastica on January 11, 2013.
She anonymously registers a webpage for her Denovo Scientific Journal on godaddy.com on February 4, 2013.
She publishes her paper on Denovo Scientific Journal and claims she "purchased" the original journal and renamed it on February 13, 2013.


If this is true, Ketchum clearly intended to cover her tracks by creating the first journal so she could say she later purchased it and renamed it. I would be willing to retract any of the statements I made above if she is willing to provide the documents that she claims to have proving the purchase of the journal actually took place.
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I suppose the only interesting thing out of this "study release" for me is that now.. NOW.. the footers have purchased their own "Scientific Journal" to expound their crazy beliefs and propound their "important findings and studies".

It makes sense though. First it was a "movie documentary .. then a few episodes on television.. then a few more "movies" on cable television.. then a blog on the internet.. then a couple of internet dedicated sites then a series on Cable Television.

Now the TB's and their young folks will have more "evidence" on mass media.

So, Yes 50 years it is not a stretch as WP pointed out. There is money to be made.

Marketing is an awesome tool. Especially when there are so many people out there willing to believe almost anything and also to be told what they are seeing/hearing/experiencing from others is reality.
 
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I have faith this whole episode is going to end badly for The Melba. The absurdity of it notwithstanding, she's really bit off more than she can chew. At least Don "Jeffe" Meldrum was perversely clever enough to center his Bigfoot BS expertise around an unfalsifiable esoteric notion he has (supposed) actual expertise in (evolutionary morphology). One that any random DNA lab down the street - or a skeptic forum poster - couldn't so easily refute. Even worse, she's creating a curious need that's only gonna turn into a righteous demand (by her minions) for an actual body. And sooner than later.

Whatever the case, I say it ends badly.

Wait, what's that? Oh she lives in a Tibetan monastery now? I'll bet she does! ;)
 
I've asked all over the place, and maybe even here, but haven't yet had an answer.

Does anyone know what "next generation genome sequencing" means? Why would peer reviewers need expertise in this to be able to effectively consider her paper, as MK claims?

Mike
 
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