If you have been following this story, you know that a science blogger
named Eric Berger released information stating that "a highly reputable
geneticist" friend of his in Texas had looked into Dr. Melba Ketchum's data
claiming that it was "a mix of opossum and other species." Ketchum posted a
response to all this on you Facebook page (Below)
In response to the latest round of criticism. 1. We did give these folks
access to the genomes. 2. They only pulled random sequences and did not look at
the whole genomes. The person from UT that did our analysis told me that he
never got all of the raw data uploaded to the second lab due to computer
problems on the receiving lab's end. 2. I offered raw DNA to this lab so they
could extract and sequence themselves. They would not even give the courtesy of
a reply. 3. They refused to even speak with me on the phone. The entire thing
was completely and totally unprofessional. 4. They never tried to check the
analysis done at the University of Texas even though the bioinformatics person
put himself at their disposal.
What findings they gave were impossible since both of our labs would have
had to extract feces to obtain these results. If it had been feces, we would not
have been able to obtain the preliminary results that we got prior to the
genomes. After all, they were the same extractions. You can't get feces from
tissue, blood and saliva. If we did extract feces, the quality scores would not
have been this high. That is in the literature. This leads to a couple of
possibilities. One, there is a conspiracy to suppress our findings. Two, they
just didn't care and didn't believe that there is even the possibility that
Sasquatch exists and therefore just wanted to be done with it because they had
other projects. Three, they themselves suppressed it for fear that their careers
would be damaged. The things that I know for sure are that it was not an
adequate analysis, they did not even try to double check or recreate our
findings. If they really had an interest, they would have jumped at the chance
to resequence the raw samples. Funny thing, I offered the samples to three other
places also and nobody was willing to test. Something is just not right. I also
offered several people an opportunity to visit a habituation site including this
reporter and his lab people so they could have a sighting. Of course they didn't
want that either. Bottom line, nobody except a few of you here even care about
the truth. Most would rather perpetuate that BF is a myth or an
ape.
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