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Just to remind everyone about the Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project DNA study, what we all know as Syke's DNA project, if you do not read news about it from me or Bryan Sykes directly then do not believe what you read. Beware of yellow-journalists (RL) that are willing to post anything they can in order to attempt to stay relevant and fill up space on their blog. So far nothing I have read from this blogger about this project is based on something I said or Bryan has said and so don't believe it.
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Mullis
 
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We are coming down to the end of it and it will be an interesting fall. As I have said in the past, the documentary will come out first, then Bryan's paper will follow, and then Bryan's book which will detail his experiences with this project and engaging the Bigfoot community. When the dates are finalized I will be posting that information. Until then, don’t believe anything you see about me or Bryan or this project on the Internet. Instead just sit back and enjoy the fall because now is the time that Bigfoots are highly active in the lowlands with ripened farms, and the salmon running.

Happy Bigfooting.

Rhettman A. Mullis, Jr.
Bigfootology
 
William Parcher said:
Will Sykes use the word myth when he talks about the object of the negative samples? Or are you just spinning your wheels speculating instead of waiting to see what he actually says?
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I refer you to the answer I gave moments ago:

MikeG said:
Why do you make me write so many words to reiterate the completely obvious implied-but-not-stated in my post?
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"Instead just sit back and enjoy the fall because now is the time that Bigfoots are highly active in the lowlands with ripened farms, and the salmon running."

I couldn't help but laugh out loud at that. I assume it wasn't meant to be funny, but it certainly made me chuckle. Tomorrow at noon, the wife and I leave for Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. We head north to the Bruce Peninsula area and stay in a country inn and hike all day, every day. It's my favorite weekend of the year. We will be hiking in these areas that are ripe with wild apple orchards, streams abundant with salmon, and miles from human population centers. I will get great pics and many fond memories, but I'm pretty sure that none of these "highly active" Bigfoots will make an appearance.
 
Good point Shrike. According to Youtube investigators, Ontario Bigfeets enjoy apples but seem to have tiny, almost rodent like, teeth.
 
LTC8K6 said:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=580950735276213&id=169864543051503

We are coming down to the end of it and it will be an interesting fall. As I have said in the past, the documentary will come out first, then Bryan's paper will follow, and then Bryan's book which will detail his experiences with this project and engaging the Bigfoot community. When the dates are finalized I will be posting that information. Until then, don’t believe anything you see about me or Bryan or this project on the Internet. Instead just sit back and enjoy the fall because now is the time that Bigfoots are highly active in the lowlands with ripened farms, and the salmon running.

Happy Bigfooting.

Rhettman A. Mullis, Jr.
Bigfootology
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So why doesn't someone with HD camera or a rifle head to the active bigfoots who are living off the fattened apple and ripened salmon? If this fellow knows where they be, why not just go get one rather than wait for all the Sykes drama?

The Shrike is correct: bigfootery is way dumber than people think.
 
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MikeG said:
I completely disagree.

He can show them that all the samples they hold contain no evidence of the myth they perpetuate.
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Of course at that point they'll accuse him of being close minded and use his work to perpetuate their beliefs.

Personally I'm betting he's been Meldrummed and has seen the green light at the end of the money tunnel.
 
dmaker said:
Good point Shrike. According to Youtube investigators, Ontario Bigfeets enjoy apples but seem to have tiny, almost rodent like, teeth.
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Canned beans with screwdrivers to open the cans and zagnut bars seem to be popular with the Big Blurry One.
 
LTC8K6 said:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=580950735276213&id=169864543051503

We are coming down to the end of it and it will be an interesting fall. As I have said in the past, the documentary will come out first, then Bryan's paper will follow, and then Bryan's book which will detail his experiences with this project and engaging the Bigfoot community. When the dates are finalized I will be posting that information. Until then, don’t believe anything you see about me or Bryan or this project on the Internet. Instead just sit back and enjoy the fall because now is the time that Bigfoots are highly active in the lowlands with ripened farms, and the salmon running.

Happy Bigfooting.

Rhettman A. Mullis, Jr.
Bigfootology
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Bigfootology? There really is such a thing? It seems all you need these days to be a Bigfoot "expert" is a science-y name and a blog. This guy's blog is so self-indulgent it is essentially unreadable. The quality of the "experts" in Bigfootery says more to me than the vast nothingness of all the evidence presented that is supposed to convince us of the existence of Bigfoot. Sheesh.
 
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The Shrike said:
Bolding mine. If he's got something of note, it should be published for realz. If he doesn't, then it's disingenuous to announce something of note in a book.

My worry is that if Sykes doesn't employ good critical thinking in this endeavor, that ill-founded statements he makes now could spawn another 40 years of bigfoot woo. We've already got enough bad work from otherwise good people to fan the flames of bigfootery.
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This.

I expected Sykes to run a few of these "vetted" bigfoot & yeti samples and come out identifying them in a local Oxford paper/publication perhaps. Putting the notion that science doesn't look at bigfoot evidence to rest.

Instead he went bigfooting with the bigfootology crew. I hope MikeG is correct and he decided that extending 'the study' of bigfooters and writing a book seemed like a fun (and profitable) thing to do.

Unfortunately Sykes has a history. Is Meldrum still claiming that the yeti Sykes tested was 'unknown primate' rather than bear? Many footers are still listing that one in the evidence column...
 
People were mistaking unknown for new species. Geneticists know there's no such thing as unknown DNA, so when Sykes said unknown he really meant the DNA couldn't be identified, not that it's a new animal. When that sample did become known, it turned out to be bear, but footers are still debating this:D
 
aboman said:
......Is Meldrum still claiming that the yetihair Sykes tested was 'unknown primate' rather than bear? Many footers are still listing that one in the evidence column...
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This is how rumours start. It was never "unknown primate". Sykes just had it as "unknown" originally, which is a perfectly legitimate scientific finding in anything but the world of cryptowhatever. In the crypto world, "unknown" = "crypto", rather than, say, corrupted sample, or not enough DNA to test, or whatever.

Mike
 
MikeG said:
This is how rumours start. It was never "unknown primate". Sykes just had it as "unknown" originally, which is a perfectly legitimate scientific finding in anything but the world of cryptowhatever. In the crypto world, "unknown" = "crypto", rather than, say, corrupted sample, or not enough DNA to test, or whatever.

Mike
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Thanks for the fix re yeti/hair.

That is exactly the point though. If Sykes doesn't approach the footers with skepticism and dare I say cynicism he will likely end up giving them more ammunition. If he assumes they will not twist his words and actions to fit their belief he is wrong.

If any of the current samples come back labled 'unknown', that will mean sample==bigfoot in footer minds. I hope he learned from the yeti hair fiasco and is more careful this time but who knows.
 
aboman said:
...Unfortunately Sykes has a history. Is Meldrum still claiming that the yeti Sykes tested was 'unknown primate' rather than bear? Many footers are still listing that one in the evidence column...
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I don't think he is, at least since he met Sykes in April 2012.
...Sykes also analyzed hair samples from Bhutan attributed to the Yeti, which seemed to defy DNA identification. Interestingly, during our conversation I learned that further efforts were subsequently successful in determining that the hair originated from bear...
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http://www.isu.edu/rhi/pdf/Oxford PR.pdf
 
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