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stuneville Administrator
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Cryptomundo has a synopsis here, along with supplementary stuff from Melba Ketchum (with alleged footage of sleeping 'squatch "Matilda") here, and commentary from Jim McClarin here.
Lots to wade through, will post back later when I've time to work out what I think  . |
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| oldrover Great Old One Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Total posts: 2146 Location: Wales Gender: Male |
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| lkb3rd Great Old One Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Total posts: 287 Location: CT. USA Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-02-2013 00:32 Post subject: |
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| After all the bizarre, unprofessional, and flaky behavior I am not sure I even care about this any more. |
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| oldrover Great Old One Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Total posts: 2146 Location: Wales Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-02-2013 17:32 Post subject: |
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What surprises me is that the faithful don't seem to be taking this very seriously either.
I don't understand it, in my opinion this is big foot, this is all it ever was and all it ever will be. |
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| Anome_ Faceless Man
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| Posted: 15-02-2013 21:37 Post subject: |
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Yeah, self-publishing scientific articles in a journal you own is a sure sign of credibility.
Or credulousness. I'm always getting the two confused. |
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| stuneville Administrator
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| Posted: 15-02-2013 22:24 Post subject: |
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| stuneville wrote: | | Lots to wade through, will post back later when I've time to work out what I think . |
| oldrover wrote: | | What surprises me is that the faithful don't seem to be taking this very seriously either. |
No. I'm not, now I've had a chance to wade a bit. I see three basic possibilities.
Either:
Melba's entirely sincere, but sweet-naturedly gullible and has taken some really really bad advice, or
Melba's entirely sincere, but sweet-naturedly gullible and has been completely taken in by one of the plethora of colourful characters (read: con-merchants) that inhabit the Bigfoot universe sensing a buck, or
Melba herself is actually one of the plethora of colourful characters (read: con-merchants) that inhabit the Bigfoot universe sensing a buck.
Now, if it's one of the first two, then the findings could still stand. But I'm not holding my breath. |
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| dreeness Teen Titans Forum TGNMemory
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| Posted: 16-02-2013 01:27 Post subject: |
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Link to article:
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From The Puffington Host:
| Quote: | Bigfoot DNA Tests: Science Journal's Credibility Called Into Question
Bigfoot is real ... maybe.
After months of waiting for a peer-reviewed scientific journal to publish findings on the validity of alleged Bigfoot DNA evidence, the time has come for answers. But is there enough empirical evidence to finally confirm that the elusive, tall, hairy man-beast of North America really exists? Maybe, but questions have now been raised about the scientific journal publishing the findings.
In November, after a five-year study of purported Bigfoot (aka Sasquatch) DNA samples, Texas geneticist Melba Ketchum and a team of experts in genetics, forensics, imaging and pathology, were anxious for their findings to be published in a scientific journal. On Wednesday, their research appeared in the DeNovo Journal of Science, which seemed to confirm Ketchum's research about the reality of Bigfoot.
But according to GoDaddy.com, DeNovo was first registered as a domain on Feb. 4, 2013 --- anonymously and for only one year.
The current edition of DeNovo is listed as Volume 1, Issue 1, and its only content, thus far, is the Bigfoot research.
Also, on Ketchum's Sasquatch Genome Project website, she writes, "It has been a long and tedious battle to prove that Sasquatch exists. ... Trying to publish has taken almost two years. It seems mainstream science just can't seem to tolerate something controversial, especially from a group of primarily forensic scientists and not 'famous academians' aligned with large universities, even though most of our sequencing and analysis was performed at just such facilities."
Ketchum then explains how one journal agreed to publish her findings, but then was advised not to by its lawyers because such a controversial subject "would destroy the editors' reputations (as it has already done to mine). ... Rather than spend another five years just trying to find a journal to publish and hoping that decent, open minded reviewers would be chosen, we acquired the rights to this journal and renamed it so we would not lose the passing peer reviews that are expected by the public and the scientific community."
And therein lies the potential problem: Did Ketchum "buy" this journal, and begin its new existence under the name of DeNovo just over a week ago in order to get what appears to be a favorable peer review of her Bigfoot studies? That's the big question being raised by numerous people at this point.
According to a press release by Ketchum's Sasquatch Genome Project, the study, "which sequenced three whole Sasquatch nuclear genomes, shows that the legendary Sasquatch is extant in North America and is a human relative that arose approximately 13,000 years ago and is hypothesized to be a hybrid cross of modern Homo sapiens with a novel primate species."
A total of 111 specimens of alleged Sasquatch hair, blood, skin and other tissues formed the basis of the study. These samples came from many individuals and groups at sites covering 14 states and two Canadian provinces.
Watch this related Fox News Bigfoot report
On her Doubtful News website, skeptic and geologist Sharon Hill raises many questions about Ketchum's claims.
"I clicked on the DeNovo site and was appalled at how amateurish the site is. It's full of stock photographs, very poorly coded, there are errors all over it and it's very difficult to navigate," Hill told The Huffington Post.
"[Ketchum] documented that she acquired the rights to this journal. We don't know what journal that was. I still can't find it and that's a little fishy," said Hill. "And then she renamed it so they would not lose the peer reviews that they had. It looks suspicious. This is not how science works."
Also, on the DeNovo site, the journal itself is identified as both DeNovo and DeVono.
It would be a huge story if all the work done by Ketchum and her team ultimately leads to scientific confirmation of the reality of Sasquatch. But at this point, the new wrinkles about the DeNovo Science Journal have only added to the credibility issues by a foot or two -- a Bigfoot. |
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| oldrover Great Old One Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Total posts: 2146 Location: Wales Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-02-2013 09:06 Post subject: |
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| stuneville wrote: | | stuneville wrote: | | Lots to wade through, will post back later when I've time to work out what I think . |
| oldrover wrote: | | What surprises me is that the faithful don't seem to be taking this very seriously either. |
No. I'm not, now I've had a chance to wade a bit. |
Just to emphasise that I don't consider you or anyone else here to be what I'd tend to think of as 'the faithful'.
I'd say it has to be obvious though that in this matter an innocent explanation is impossible. |
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| oldrover Great Old One Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Total posts: 2146 Location: Wales Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-02-2013 09:13 Post subject: |
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| Actually now I think of it one and two of your list of possible scenarios might possibly hold up, I'm not saying they do of course just that it's not impossible. Speaking purely from a humane perspective, I'd rather think it was option three. |
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| amyasleigh Great Old One Joined: 03 Nov 2009 Total posts: 381 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 16-02-2013 10:20 Post subject: |
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| In some of the correspondence elsewhere about these recent doings, I've seen reference to Ketchum comparing herself in her recent labours and travails and being scorned / rejected / misunderstood, to Galileo and to Jesus Christ. Protesting too much, just a bit? Her carrying-on this way would tend to reduce her credibility -- suggesting that she isn't very stable, and / or she's consciously involved in fraud and fakery. |
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| oldrover Great Old One Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Total posts: 2146 Location: Wales Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-02-2013 18:04 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | suggesting that she isn't very stable |
That's the thing, if this is all just the result of delusion rather than trickery it'd be very sad. |
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| lkb3rd Great Old One Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Total posts: 287 Location: CT. USA Gender: Male |
| Posted: 18-02-2013 19:20 Post subject: |
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| amyasleigh wrote: | | In some of the correspondence elsewhere about these recent doings, I've seen reference to Ketchum comparing herself in her recent labours and travails and being scorned / rejected / misunderstood, to Galileo and to Jesus Christ. Protesting too much, just a bit? Her carrying-on this way would tend to reduce her credibility -- suggesting that she isn't very stable, and / or she's consciously involved in fraud and fakery. |
I group this in with the claims she was raped by a Bigfoot, and that one braided her horse's mane. Maybe it is true(as an open minded Fortean  ), but if she had more common sense she'd have kept her mouth shut about that and focused on provable facts.
It is also possible that she is having mental issues. |
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| Isis177 Great Old One Joined: 22 May 2004 Total posts: 425 Location: Australia Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 19-02-2013 11:17 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Bigfoot DNA
In the first half of Sunday's show, Dr. Melba S. Ketchum joined George Knapp to discuss the official release of her DNA analysis of possible Bigfoot hair samples. Her publication titled "Novel North American Hominin" is available for paid download through the DeNovo Journal. Ketchum's findings were based on the analysis of 111 samples of blood, tissue, hair, and related materials sent in to her lab by Sasquatch researchers and eyewitnesses. Mitochondrial DNA testing revealed that the hair was human in origin, yet a forensic hair specialist examined the specimens and declared them to be novel-- "it was not human hair and didn't match any of his animal knowns it was tested against," he told her.
When it came to testing the nuclear DNA of the samples "we started getting really strange results," she said, "with weird looking bands that were all different sizes." One testing facility reported that the sequences didn't match anything in the GenBank database. Ketchum has concluded that the creatures are either derived from humans and mutated excessively, or some type of hybrid. Further, she believes them to be a fairly modern species, paralleling humans in the last 13,000 years. She also suggested that there were some 16 different subtypes of Bigfoot, typically associated with different regions. For more, check out the recap of her 12/23/12 show appearance.
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This was in the Coastzone newsletter today |
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| amyasleigh Great Old One Joined: 03 Nov 2009 Total posts: 381 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 19-02-2013 14:25 Post subject: |
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| lkb3rd wrote: | | amyasleigh wrote: | | In some of the correspondence elsewhere about these recent doings, I've seen reference to Ketchum comparing herself in her recent labours and travails and being scorned / rejected / misunderstood, to Galileo and to Jesus Christ. Protesting too much, just a bit? Her carrying-on this way would tend to reduce her credibility -- suggesting that she isn't very stable, and / or she's consciously involved in fraud and fakery. |
I group this in with the claims she was raped by a Bigfoot, and that one braided her horse's mane. Maybe it is true(as an open minded Fortean ), but if she had more common sense she'd have kept her mouth shut about that and focused on provable facts.
It is also possible that she is having mental issues. |
I'd forgotten the raped-by-a-Bigfoot thing concerning her -- honestly ! So much crazy stuff surrounding this whole subject; and that of it concerning the creature and sex, seeming especially crazy: I mentally rolled eyes at the time, at the claim re Ketchum, then consigned it to the BS pile and forgot it. And the horses'-manes-braiding matter: often shows up on this whole scene, but plenty of possible mundane explanations for it...
Agree that if it is wished to get mainstream science on board, best to keep the way-out-there stuff out of sight. |
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| dreeness Teen Titans Forum TGNMemory
Great Old One Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Total posts: 1045 Location: Teen Titans Message Board TGNMemory Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-02-2013 02:14 Post subject: |
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| Isis177 wrote: | | Quote: | Bigfoot DNA
In the first half of Sunday's show, Dr. Melba S. Ketchum joined George Knapp to discuss the official release of her DNA analysis of possible Bigfoot hair samples. Her publication titled "Novel North American Hominin" is available for paid download through the DeNovo Journal. Ketchum's findings were based on the analysis of 111 samples of blood, tissue, hair, and related materials sent in to her lab by Sasquatch researchers and eyewitnesses. Mitochondrial DNA testing revealed that the hair was human in origin, yet a forensic hair specialist examined the specimens and declared them to be novel-- "it was not human hair and didn't match any of his animal knowns it was tested against," he told her.
When it came to testing the nuclear DNA of the samples "we started getting really strange results," she said, "with weird looking bands that were all different sizes." One testing facility reported that the sequences didn't match anything in the GenBank database. Ketchum has concluded that the creatures are either derived from humans and mutated excessively, or some type of hybrid. Further, she believes them to be a fairly modern species, paralleling humans in the last 13,000 years. She also suggested that there were some 16 different subtypes of Bigfoot, typically associated with different regions. For more, check out the recap of her 12/23/12 show appearance.
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This was in the Coastzone newsletter today |
(Wild Conjecture Alert!)
Leaving Dr Ketchum's research (very much) to one side for a moment, what about the idea of (sometime in the ancient past) a geographically and genetically isolated human population, becoming increasingly inbred over time, gradually and progressively acquiring more and more atavistic traits,
resulting in what would amount to more or less an accidental and spontaneous "TaurOs Project"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaurOs_Project
thereby creating a reasonable facsimile of primitive hominids, or something like that? |
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