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This issue even still being debated is a black eye on BF research. It's a detriment to the subject if something so you obviously flawed is still getting traction. It weakens the argument as a whole that BF is a living breathing hominid. Before the "results" ( notice I won't say published ) were released I was very optimistic about what they could reveal. Most of this DNA stuff is well above my pay grade but listening to other scientist chime in and say the work is shoddy is enough to tell me there is nothing of worth here. We should put this in the pile with other hoaxers and move on. The quicker it dies the better for true BF research IMO.

I have read that article now for a third time. And I still see nothing damning in it. In fact, Dr. Disotell actually did say this: "I’m not saying the conclusions in the paper are right or wrong," And then went on to say that at the time he wrote the article he had only read the Summary and Conclusion parts of the paper. His complaint seemed more to focus on mainstream protocols regarding publishing than anything else.

You forget the part where he goes saltwater fishing in the bloody boots making the dna from blood on them totally useless.. He destroys or tosses the bloody clothes. Rationale was supposedly F&W visits to his home and fears he could be investigated for offenses.

The above post's "scenario" requires a lot of mental gymnastics to be considered "logical". A suspected poacher was caught shooting and killing something unknown to him....yet it was all by accident. Riiight.

I have yet to to see or hear anyone suggest the very logical reason the clump of bear hair may have been found at the site where Justin thought he had concealed the BF.. It was cold weather. Bear country. Bear working hard to find and eat enough to get them through the winter. They can smell dead animals from miles away. A bear finds the hidden body, another bear tries to steal it, and a knock-down drag-out ensues, One bear loses the fight, along with a clump of hide and hair. The winner drags the Bigfoot body of to a good place eat and guard it. If there had been a bear killed and/or cleaned at that location by a legal or illegal hunter, there would have undoubtedly been more evidence of such a kill at that site, especially if was an illegal kill. There is absolutely no reason that bear hair would have to be subjected to DNA analyses to determine the source animal. Somewhere down the line someone either messed with that clump of hair, or its analysis. It is my understanding that Dr. S made at least one, and maybe two trips to the F&W DNA lab in Ashland before he presented his "findings" to Justin and the others. Why? So the folks there could explain what they were obligated to do by "little o's" memo. Since it was a sample from the USA, Dr. S was under the gun, big time!

Whoa. a) Justin claimed to have shot two bigfoot. Instead of dragging out the greatest discovery ever he chose to leave the bodies where they lay. b ) Upon having a change of heart many months later he returns to the scene and collects samples. Ruling out the Ketchum samples as goobly gook. The other samples tested where bear. What are the chances a random old bear decided to lay down and die at the exact spot Smeja shot his bigfeets? c) Smeja has been in trouble with the law over poaching bears and other wildlife. d) Was Smejas motivation to shoot a bear, let it decay for a year and then come back and claim it was a bigfoot? Hoping maybe the dna would have been contaminated enough to be inconclusive in a test? e) Regardless of his lie detector test results. We have absolutely NO proof that Smeja shot two bigfeets on the day in question. If he had cut off just a finger or a toe and kept it? Game over. This is the same tired old game of Ketchum, Biscardi, Standing, Dyer, and all the rest......promises, promises but not deliver the goods. And then excuses, excuses and finger pointing and name calling. Smoke and mirrors..... Wake up people! Remember.... you dont have to defend the creeps looking to cash in on this subject, to defend the subject itself.