What do you think of the recent Bigfoot DNA study?

Elain, it may not take long to do some DNA but this involved the COMPLETE GENOME OF three individuals and it has to meet peer review which means it goes back and forth untill all are satisfied. I know way more about this than the average person on YA. The Russians have nothing substantial. The evidence is about bigfoot. Igor Bortsev of Russia prematurely released a press statement. That apparently force Dr. Ketchum to release hers and it was ill timed but that wasn't her fault.

In fact there is far more to this study than is known by the general public. It isn't just a farse. It is probably the real deal but we do have to wait for the actual study. The person in charge of it all, well it is a collaboration of many people, but the main person is probably David Palides a former cop. He investigated claims and sightings and made two books, the Hoopa Project and another which I have read. He is very credible as is the evidence.

For some reason, bigfoot is almost forbidden to even investigate. I have a website dedicated to it and have been studying it for years. Even in the bigfoot community, there is a bias toward bigfoot being an ape. Those like my brother and I who argued it is more logical to assume that it is something close to human were mocked and ridiculed but we have science on our side. You have Dr. Meldrum among others who jump through hoops to call bigfoot a great ape. They suggest that it evolved convergently to develop bipedalism. In fact it is far simpler to suggest that it is more likely from one of the hominids. Apparently it is a from a hominid (from rumors) that had a last common ancestor with humans about 2.25 million years ago making it close to Homo habilis. This creature mated with a human female 15 thousand years ago who shares the H Haplo group which indicates she likely came from Europe. This hybrid apparently was viable and in fact advantageous. It is interesting because recent studies in Archeology indicate Clovis technology may have been from Silutreans from Europe. The time is right. This would seem to indicate that a primitive hominid living in North America likely kidnapped a female human. This is a commonly reported happenstance from Native Americans but typically they say the offspring are not viable. Perhaps we were just close enough to provide a viable offspring. I know more about this than most because I have heard some rumored releases but until the actual report is released we will have to wait and find out the details.

Chen will no doubt change her tune once the evidence is revealed.

Fiona, I find it interesting that you are so willing to mock and insult Dr. Ketchum before the study is released. Don't believe everything you read on the net, particularly from Lindsey (forgot his first name). Lindsey knows a good deal about this but has been releasing false charges as well IMO. Dr. Ketchum has been very busy trying to get this through the peer review. She is an expert with DNA. She has a non-disclosure agreement and didn't want to discuss it. She is not alone. If this were a fake, a number of people, including Palides, a former cop, would have to be in on it and for nothing to gain except ridicule. I find it hard to believe it is fake. It is almost certainly proof that we don't know as much as we thought we did.

Note: I notice up to now I have gotten 2 thumbs down. These people can't provide a reason for this. I know they are in the crowd that know just enough to know they are supposed to scoff at anything related to bigfoot. I could write a book about what I know about bigfoot. Most of these people struggle to write a paragraph and that paragraph generally contains nothing of substance. They think they have science on their side. They don't. They may have a scientific orthodoxy on their side but science is about finding the truth. Chen suggests there is no evidence. I provided just a tip of the ice berg but clearly he/she is wrong. There is evidence. In fact, there is a mountain of evidence. This may be the first unrefutable evidence, however.

No, there is honestly no info that bigfoot exists. That prepare is hilarious even though. If bigfoot have been genuine somebody might have shot one by now, or captured it on the least. i'm offering a $25 funds reward for the 1st individual to deliver me a bigfoot carcass. Sale is going for nessie, champ, el chupacabris and the jersey devil

The announcement was made prior to any publication of the work, and it was done by a private for-profit company - one that has an F rating and multiple complaints on the BBB's website. Their phone number is disconnected and their website lists no new phone number or address, but just says they are moving and to check back in 2013. I seriously doubt this is legitimate!

Unfortunately, even if a genuine study of this type were published in a real scientific journal it would still be ignored because it is about Bigfoot. That is what has happened so far to those who have conducted real scientific inquiry. And all of these fake discoveries only make it harder on those who are doing real work.

EDIT: Perhaps this study at the University of Oxford will yield something of interest:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120522...

Hello,

As with all the other scenarios to date we shall have to wait and see if they are once again a dollar short and a day late to say for sure.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

EDIT - Here are the results and assessment... thought as much!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/scientist-...

I'll just wait until it becomes Nation Wide News and reserve my comments for a later time..

There is no genuine Bigfoot DNA to study. All supposed evidence of Bigfoot is only crude fakes. This is certainly just another silly hoax. Jim Z is the person who will blush with shame, if he has any, when this is revealed to be another Bigfoot hoax. There is no evidence, never has been and never will be!

DNA does not take long to identify if you're using a reputable lab. Don't hold your breath, if they HAD anything you'd have heard about a breakthrough already.

i saw this on finding bigfoot and the dna analyas was inconclusive, there is no such thing as bigfoot. if there was why have no remains ever been found????