Bigfoot DNA

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Leading geneticist Bryan Sykes uses DNA testing to determine if Bigfoot is a hominid, an ape or just a hoax
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This actually looks like it could be exactly what many here expect/hope for. Sykes stating that he examined the best evidence in bigfootery, vetted by Meldrum, and concludes its all a hoax.

ETA: Wait, is the show name 'Bigfoot Files', and this is Series 1, Episode 1? Will there be more episodes? If that is the case I'm assuming that if they expect to air more episodes Sykes is not about to out bigfoot as a hoax in episode 1.

It does look like this could be a one off show though, no other episodes listed.

I can't wait to watch it.
 
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Then what will we have left to talk about? I can't see the gravy train ending here.
 
dmaker said:
"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.
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I will be at my cabin near the Manitoba border. I will keep an eye out for figboot while pulling the boat out for the winter.
 
There are two more episodes I think. One on Russia and one on America. Apparently he's made some sort of discovery, and it has something to do with humans.
 
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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I never felt that this was ever an innocent misnterpretation that perpetuated innocent rumours in the footer world.

It was always a deliberate act of spreading disinformation in order to perpetuate their belief system and maintain cash flow for anyone who was disingenuous enough to rip off the footer rubes.

This deceptive reporting by crypto"zoologists" and the like, regarding unknown DNA results is disinformationWP, not misinformationWP.
 
dafydd said:
Bigfoots only use feng shui for birth control. The female of the species enters the cave then pulls a big rock to block the opening so the male can't get in.
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Feng shui birth control could be really, really big (and profitable). How would it work for humans?
 
Sykes' book's tentative title is "The Quest For The Yeti" and it seems he is separating the yeti from Bigfoot conceptually as a different possible species. By giving the yeti title billing, I'm assuming the find that will shake our foundations, or whatever, will be from yeti samples.

On the other hand, the press release did mention that near the end of his questing two samples popped up that were very interesting and changed the coarse of the study. And it seems that Sykes did spend some of the later months of his quest in the company of the Bigfootology folks.

We will see.
 
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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Sykes himself launched the rumour at the time. Here is what he said back then:
...It's certainly mysterious...It's not a human, it's not a bear(sic!), not everything else that we've so far been ever tried to identify, a mystery, and I didn't think it would end in a mystery. We've never encountered any dna that we couldn't recognize before, but then we weren't looking for the Yeti...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bok3PXOen7E#t=252 (from 2'10")

A lack of scientific caution that certainly pleased the producer (imo).
 
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jerrywayne said:
Sykes' book's tentative title is "The Quest For The Yeti" and it seems he is separating the yeti from Bigfoot conceptually as a different possible species. By giving the yeti title billing, I'm assuming the find that will shake our foundations, or whatever, will be from yeti samples.

On the other hand, the press release did mention that near the end of his questing two samples popped up that were very interesting and changed the coarse of the study. And it seems that Sykes did spend some of the later months of his quest in the company of the Bigfootology folks.

We will see.
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I think 'Yeti' crosses oceans, where as Bigfoot may only be a N. American marketing ploy.
 
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