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She's been totally and thoroughly discredited in the field of BF/DNA research- mainly by her own actions. Anyone still waiting for legitimate results from this "study", may as well by tickets to the next RD sideshow.

I don't buy the whole scorn that bigfoot affiliation brings with it. When asked in the recent interview done by KBHunter, I believe, Kathy Strain responded that she has suffered no ridicule or negativity in her job due to her bigfoot affiliation. You keep mentioning this, but cannot seem to actually provide any solid examples.

What Ketchum supporters seem to forget...we wanted Melba to succeed. I was part of the Preservation group and one of the ones who got blocked and banned because we knew the truth. We knew that she did not have the entire genomes of the 3 samples. We knew that she herself had posted those ridiculous claims that she now says she never said (which were scrubbed from her pages). We knew she was lying about her paper being peer reviewed and the manner in which she published it. So, she got rid of us. So, yes, I think her latest claims about a there being a new lab who is going to validate her findings, is hogwash. What are your reasons for supporting her and having hopes for her latest claims? Because you want them to be true? That's not enough for me. Not when it comes to Ketchum.

So, I guess that is a no? You have no evidence of careers that have been negatively impacted by bigfoot belief?

His bigfoot belief seems to have done nothing to stop his full tenure at ISU. DWA, maybe you could provide some examples of careers that have been hindered due to bigfoot interest?

The fact that The Smithsonian isn't looking for this thing has nothing to do with ridicule. There simply is no good reason to believe this thing exists. That is why they are not looking. Since that article you linked was published (2006) , Meldrum became a fully tenured professor. He has also made quite a bit of money off conventions and appearances I would wager that come directly out of his bigfoot interest. I would say he is doing fine by bigfoot.

It depends on what labs might be involved in testing under this new study. Meldrum was collecting samples not so long ago, and NYU was his lab. I sent him samples, so if that lab is involved, there would be the chance that the results could match what Ketchum found, though that might not also come with the same claim of a new species. I look at all the evidence there is for bigfoot, and the only gaping hole (aside frome a body) is the unique DNA that proves it's a new species which sould be the easiest thing to obtain for all the sightings and knowledge we should have about where they live. I know how she arrived at the idea or hypothesis of a hybrid hominin, and it was before she ever did the whole nuclear genome sequencing, which was not her forte'. But when she got the mosaic of human and other it fit the hypothesis. Those samples got rushed through and shouldn't have. Her claims of validation may not be aimed at her nuclear results, and someone may have found something that affirms her conclusion, but with very different nuclear results. Just have to wait and see.

LOL, I don't want the other skeptics to make fun of me and think I went completely over to the other side, but I did promise a sophist approach to this, so here goes... Two juvenile Squatches playing games. It was getting dark, probably headed out for a hunt and saw Finnerty and decided to have some fun. If BF exists there has to be young ones and I would expect them to me prone to mischief just as teenage humans are. They saw Finnerty, alone, forgot about their hunt and started playing around, tossing things at him, probably blasting him with infrasound if they do have that ability and it is something I see plausible. I know Paulides said a lot of his cases involve people who have some physical disabilities, defects or limitations, so perhaps the BF can sense this, or maybe infrasound just works better on them. Finnerty was using drugs and had been drinking, plus he did have some early signs of CTE, making him an easier victim, and easier prey. The infrasound coupled with his drug/alcohol use and early CTE caused him to become confused and concerned. He said he thought someone was following him, perhaps the BF were skirting him on the shore but that creek where his boat was found doesn't look very deep, they could have been following him in the creek itself from the looks of it. All he could tell was there were two human like shapes, so he assumed they were humans. That's why he was trying to talk to them, remember his wife asked him who he was talking to and he said "the guys following him but they wouldn't answer". Once out of the water, in his addled state, he continued on through the woods heading away from the threat, thinking he could lose them perhaps. Remember he told his brother in law "things are getting tough". He finally realized what was after him, prompting the yelling heard by a local and causing him to begin running. But the chase was on and it was one he had no chance of winning. He had become exhausted, slowed or even stopped, and combined with his weakened state, sheer panic at realizing what was after him, the infrasound affected the rhythm of his heart, causing it to stop. That's what killed him. Left no sign except a slightly enlarged heart depending on if his heart was enlarged before this or the infrasound caused it. Regardless, once the heart stops, that's it, game over, you're dead. Once deceased, the BF weren't through having fun and a game of keep away took place. One would grab him and run for awhile, the other would then take him and do the same. They finally tired of the game and left him there, one of the people who found him did say it "looked like he was dragged there". They didn't mean to kill him, were just having some fun and had no intention of eating him so had their fun and then just walked away. So, that's my crazy BF killed him theory. I don't believe it, but it's a better story that the alternative and I've never believed in letting a tall tale get in the way of a good story. And after all, they don't know what killed him so as of now my crazy BF killed him theory holds just as much water.

Have you read the Ketchum threads. HH is not the only one who analyzed her results. I had no idea HH was a celebrity.... And why not mention Disotell? He is a professional. If HH and Disotell supported Melba's findings, would you still dismiss them? I wouldn't.

^^^ I think the point is Melba's study was fatally flawed from nearly the beginning. Even a broken clock shows the correct time twice per day and this would likely be the result of additional studies vs Ketchum study.

Jayjeti, you and I had obvious differences when it came to Melba's study. I tried to assist by inviting Dr. Hart. I also did that because I felt that there was much misinformation getting posted that needed clarification. You were the primary one leading the conversation at that point. I was just noticing that you had gone quiet since Dr. Hart cleared things up. Anything else you are reading into my comment is on you. I'm not "inferring" anything. I have no problem coming right out and saying what I think. Who is doing the steering here? No.... MIB said to "predefine the assumptions Hart was allowed to work from .. which failed." was disingenuous.

Since this post seems directed as chopped at me only I will respond. #1 You are a skeptic doing research, I am a witness, researcher and knower that has had a sighting and done enough sound prospecting to insure my responses can not be known hoaxer/human in return. #2 Science has not accepted my recordings because someone that came highly recommended and honorable as a biologist/ornithologist has chosen not to honor his promise to process some data. No other reason, despite your allusions (and in my mind delusions). I will leave it to that scientist (who is published and came highly recommended by a top three BF researcher) to make good on his promise (I will give him a subtle reminder that he owes me a reply shortly as the academic year will have concluded). #3 Seeing a BF and recording visuals and sounds of a BF obviously is a hard bargain to hammer out, or your own Steenburg would not be making excuses, comprende? #4 If you do not believe Sasquatch/BF has accomplished phonologics then maybe you would not understand a recording that you yourself are analyzing as captured since your trump card is that there is no analogue. Quite the Catch-22, why bother? There are many BF recording protocols that can minimize known animals and enhance the probability that sound captures are nothing but complex vocals from a sentient being and not a woodape. Also, the highly touted NAWAC "woodape" recordings, and other recordings regionally and from the southeast have backed up my own research, though you will never HEAR that from NAWAC. That is confirmatory validity for me, as a researcher, I don't need it from forum members. So when I hear calls for evidence on a non-evidentiary BF forum, I yawn and think, there is more to life than proving these beings to those that are stimulus-bound in their mantra. And as an aside, I have never recorded a coyote or coyote like sound in my research area, not to fear. Someday you too will make the connections between raps, rock clacks, stick structures and BF phonologics, and like NAWAC I would think you will underestimate what it is that you have captured for fear of letting the cat out of the bag or maybe hurrriedly doing damage control.