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You remind me of something I saw posted elsewhere. Your constant chiding of actual scientists is like children playing cow boys and Indians and calling decorated war vets cowards. I think you could benefit from some humility.

Bob Gimlin didn't get paid a dime for this interview and did it graciously. For anyone that doesn't know how the speaker circuit works, Most all speakers are paid a very nominal fee if any for travel and that is it. There are a few like Dr Jeff Meldrum that has a higher fee involved but Bob Gimlin is extremely modest and volunteers MOST of his time and at the end of the year he has either broke even or lost a little in doing this. I know from setting up and working a few of these events. KB

WSA I must be older than you, I remember cigarette ads telling how good it was for you. Many people may have gone to their deaths knowing the cigarettes did it, but as things often happen there were powerful financial forces at work keeping the effects of cigarette smoking from the public. Notice that they are still for sale? Government loves the tax revenue. As I recall certain activists and some doctors had suspected the link and it was not until one of the major tobacco companies got caught withholding results of tobacco related health studies and manipulation of nicotine levels that the government was reluctantly forced to demand health warnings on the packages. That is about the weakest response that I can think of. Like I said they are still for sale but probably 90% of the cost is tax. I am afraid that the public is so apathetic on a lot of issues I really cannot see much demand for investigation of BF. There is probably more demand for UFO study or release of information where there already has been congressional intervention, but nothing has happened there either. If government cover up is already in place, barring massive citizen demonstrations in Washington DC where legislators fear for their life, I cannot see much interest on the part of Government to do much. Most universities in the US are public and therefore part of State Governments. Federal grants control the direction and focus of much research. The deck is pretty much stacked against anything but privately funded research. Certainly the arguments for what constitutes evidence are always valid in science. Sadly that probably will not be much of a factor until someone forces recognition of species. There is a lot of data available already that is not being looked at by science. Dmakers road kill and scat examples have already happened. Road kill disappears when the authorities show up. I can think of several reports where that has happened. Unless the driver is a BF researcher, and knows what will happen, the authorities will always be notified, and the proof will disappear. Scat is like an hourglass with fine sand. It is only good for a few hours before the bacteria present destroys DNA. Then you don't know if the producer of the scat ate the DNA or it was it's own. I keep having to remind people that BF DNA is not typed. In other words does not have an accepted DNA signature. If you send a DNA sample to a lab, the best thing you can hope for is an "Unknown Primate" result. If BF is a human hybrid, the result will most likely be contaminated human DNA or simply contaminated and not determinable. Typed DNA requires a sample taken in controlled lab conditions from a body accepted to be the species Bigfoot. That it itself would be a long process. Several DNA samples would need to be taken and processed at different labs to have any credibility. The Sykes study was very misleading. He may be a DNA expert but the best thing he could have come up with is, "I don't know what it is". He probably would not have stuck his neck out much further than saying a sample it does not match any known species. He did not test or report on all the samples submitted. Perhaps results of anything unknown were ignored. Anything he would have found would instantly be questioned because of the unknowns in collection, storage, transfer of custody, of the samples. The whole thing smacked of some sort of publicity driven grandstanding stunt to me. But there is a lot of that going around. Randy