Lots of jockeying for position and posturing on either side of the kill/no-kill position. I disagree, fundamentally, with the opening post, in that a bigfoot carcass will make profound waves in the scientific community. Within a few years, the discovery could change fundamental land-use and permissions upon vast tracts of federal land.
The claimed physical evidence has been found wanting, and clowns on the left, jokers on the right have been affronts to serious study. It's no wonder accredited scientific efforts have not been forthcoming. Those in the public eye, at outlandish press conferences or reality television shows, discourage study from creditable scientific fronts.
Yet when some amateur researcher proffers the carcass of an unclassified primate or hominid, or a severed limb or head of such, the scientific world will come to an abrupt standstill. And those would be interesting times, my friends.