Before any scientific revelation or discovery can be proclaimed as fact, it has to go to peer review.
In a nutshell, this involves releasing research notes and/or writing a journal, in a respected academic publication, so that other scientists can check the findings for themselves.
This has not yet happened with Dr Ketchum's Bigfoot work. She explained why in the interview with Houston News.
Her conclusions had been leaked by an over-excited colleague in Russia. As the news was out, DNA Diagnostics, Inc., felt that they had to respond with a press release.
It described the findings and called upon governmental bodies to recognize and protect Sasquatch as an indigenous people. But it also states that the study is under peer review in the very first sentence. While the closing statement reads, 'Full details of the study will be presented in the near future when the study manuscript publishes.'
On Houston News, Dr Ketchum told reporters that the publication will be 'weeks' rather than months away.
This isn't nearly enough for armchair scientists all over cyber-space. They seem to be falling over themselves to establish that she isn't a 'real' scientist at all. No-one can claim credibility until their peers have conferred it.
They all seem to ignore the fact that she's repeatedly added the caveat that there's been a premature leak in information, and that it all still requires that peer review.
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Their is a whole lot I'm not going to say in the open but I will say this. They don't need protection from us the population but the gov. One more thing I will say, I saw a man loss all control of himself just from the sight of one without being one bit aggressive to us. How will it ever be a normal thing to talk about? That's why ppl will always soon forget they still are here. Why wouldn't they still be alive? Well like the crocks and lots of others, they was perfect in every way. Totally adaptable to its environment, 0 environment impact and they make ppl shit themselves. How much more perfect can you get? They are prehistoric.
Agreed! Though first we have to prove a) they exist and b) they're of human descent.
Assuming that they really exist, if they are of human descent, they are human, and therefore cannot be hunted or persecuted in any way. They have human rights.
LOL Yes, you're right. :)
You don't get it. They don't want the matter settled! You mean you want a REAL CONCLUSION? Ain't gonna happen! But no harm in wishing.
:) I do wish that she'd allow a peer review on her DNA samples though. I bet Prof Bryan Sykes would leap at the chance. And it'd certainly settle the issue.
You must admit. Her conclusions are believable. Everything "BIG" in Texas! Why wouldn't one find Bigfoot's DNA there? It's a logical conclusion. :)
Absolutely no-one in the Bigfoot community, nor apparently the scientific world, has accepted her conclusions.
Sasquatch DNS found in Texas? Yep! It figures! :)
They've already been doing that for years. Texas has said that it's legal, but some of the states in the North-West, as well as the Canadian border, have ruled it illegal.
Humans do seem to have this vicious need to kill everything in our path. It's disturbing.