Bigfoot is real and there is DNA to prove it, claim researchers

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Post by digitalmud » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 10:15 PM UTC

Bigfoot is real and there is DNA to prove it, claim researchers
express.co.uk

Re: Bigfoot is real and there is DNA to prove it, claim researchers

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Post by dalke » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 10:22 PM UTC

"Dr Melba S. Ketchum, of DNA Diagnostics". I just heard about this paper the other day, at http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/02/13/sasquatch-... .

> she says she bought an existing journal and renamed it .... So she owns the journal. It’s now called De Novo.

> Then she came out with a special edition. It’s Volume 1, Issue 1. It contains precisely one paper, hers.

I've confirmed that denovojournal.com has this as its only publication.

Re: Bigfoot is real and there is DNA to prove it, claim researchers

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Post by lutusp » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 10:24 PM UTC

I wish people would stop posting this thoroughly debunked "news item". The original paper describes a sloppy procedure in which field-contaminated samples were analyzed and unsurprisingly discovered traces of both human and animal DNA, and the results were published in a hastily created non-journal after all the real science journals refused to publish it. Details here:

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/14/16964023-bigfoot...