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Does anyone have any information on Ed Smith and Bigfoot DNA? Here is a post from BFF.

"For what it's worth, the 'Ed Smith' research project on the MABRC website has relatively recently received purported BF DNA testing results which tentatively indicate approximately 78% primate/gorilla and almost 3% human content. Admittedly this is at considerable variance with the Snelgrove Lake/Meldrum DNA findings of 2005 which only had a small sample of 300 genomes to examine. Further information and results to be forthcoming in the near future from the Ed Smith research findings.*"

"* Ed Smith's research documentation is the best I have yet seen. Unfortunately, his location site was apparently harassed and raided by persons associated with a 'high profile California-based bigfoot research organization' (you can easily guess who the culprits are - those who can not be named), resulting in the cessation of any further research reporting as of December 3 of this year. They have had to go underground until their research findings are complete."


http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?showtopic=24341&pid=505351&st=132&#entry505351
 
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>>>which tentatively indicate approximately 78% primate/gorilla and almost 3% human content.

Oh my gawd

where is that report and dataset posted? ( thats not even a proper reporting format)
 
Well, at least we've been assured that it's a extremely professional research team! Looks like the results will hold up to the most rigorous scrutiny.

"Because of the apparently very high quality of the ongoing research efforts over several years, no information has 'leaked' into the public sphere to date. This speaks well for the professionalism and dedication of all of the individuals on Ed Smith's various research teams; covering up to 5 different locations, mostly in Oklahoma.

Because they have kept a tight rein on things the mainstream media has been kept entirely out of the loop - exactly where it should be - until all documentation and experimental repetition has been achieved and concluded.

What I can say is that their intention is to temporarily capture a juvenile BF for the purpose of filming the team of credentialed scientists as they take blood, tissue and hair samples for testing; after which the individual will be immediately released, unharmed, back into his own original territory. This will facilitate the scientific identification of the species once and for all. We all wait with 'bated breath."
 
GT/CS said:
Well, at least we've been assured that it's a extremely professional research team! Looks like the results will hold up to the most rigorous scrutiny.

"Because of the apparently very high quality of the ongoing research efforts over several years, no information has 'leaked' into the public sphere to date. This speaks well for the professionalism and dedication of all of the individuals on Ed Smith's various research teams; covering up to 5 different locations, mostly in Oklahoma.

Because they have kept a tight rein on things the mainstream media has been kept entirely out of the loop - exactly where it should be - until all documentation and experimental repetition has been achieved and concluded.

What I can say is that their intention is to temporarily capture a juvenile BF for the purpose of filming the team of credentialed scientists as they take blood, tissue and hair samples for testing; after which the individual will be immediately released, unharmed, back into his own original territory. This will facilitate the scientific identification of the species once and for all. We all wait with 'bated breath."
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I wonder if they realize that such a film could lead to their arrest? ( depending on the trapping laws and DNR regulations of the state)

I wonder why one would need "credentialed scientists" to take samples? ( thats usually a technicians job)

I just fear we will wind up with yet another super duper secret.....well..... nothing
 
GT/CS said:
"For what it's worth, the 'Ed Smith' research project on the MABRC website has relatively recently received purported BF DNA testing results which tentatively indicate approximately 78% primate/gorilla and almost 3% human content.
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That's nonsensical.

There's no such thing, in describing calculated evolutionary relatedness, as X% organism A, Y% organism B. If you had really done some relevant DNA analyses (say, perhaps looking at mitochondrial DNA and the 16S ribosomal RNA sequence), you could say that it is X% similar to humans, Y% similar to gorilla, and Z% similar to mouse (and so forth), where the numbers would be in the high 90s if the organism you were testing were some intermediate between humans and other primates, and lower for the mouse.

You can't say something has 3% human DNA content.* It's cheap paperback novel (by an author who couldn't be bothered to do basic research) nonsense.

*Unless, perhaps, you are sequencing something that recently ATE a human, and you've accidentally sequenced its stomach contents along with the organism itself. Notably, these requires that you pureed the bigfoot first. Seems unlikely.
 
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Consider the source and subject. Thats BF "science" in all of its raving glory.
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I know. But I thought I should point out, since random readers might not know, that that specific element of the quote was utter nonsense, since it's in my field (biology that is, not technobabble).
 
Crowlogic said:
There isn't any Bigfoot DNA
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Log, you mime skepticism very well. The problem is that considering you believe Bigfoots went extinct early in the last century (your thinly veiled belief in the PGF notwithstanding), it doesn't seem to be consistent with your beliefs. If Bigfoot went extinct less than 100 years ago then it wouldn't be unreasonable to think Bigfoot DNA might be out there somehwere to be discovered.
 
Crowlogic said:
There isn't any Bigfoot DNA
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Which there would be in abundance by now, if there was such a thing as a bigfoot. According to the bleevers the damned things are everywhere.

Why is it that the vast majority of people start with the simple fact stated here by Crowlogic and easily conclude that there's no such critter, and yet others seem compelled somehow to start from a totally imaginary point where bigfoots MUST exist and then mangle what little "evidence" there is into supporting their contention that the DNA is just about to be identified?

Is it reasonable to see this as being similar to a religion, in that adherents are pretty sure that their bizarre claims will be borne out by science, any day now?

Pharaoh says:

"What phools these mortals be."

ETA: I'm aware that Crowlogic has a reason for the "no DNA" statement that isn't "no such creature ever existed", but I felt it better left alone.
 
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Akhenaten said:
Why is it that the vast majority of people start with the simple fact stated here by Crowlogic and easily conclude that there's no such critter, and yet others seem compelled somehow to start from a totally imaginary point where bigfoots MUST exist and then mangle what little "evidence" there is into supporting their contention that the DNA is just about to be identified?
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Boredom?
 
Akhenaten said:
Why is it that the vast majority of people start with the simple fact stated here by Crowlogic and easily conclude that there's no such critter, and yet others seem compelled somehow to start from a totally imaginary point where bigfoots MUST exist and then mangle what little "evidence" there is into supporting their contention that the DNA is just about to be identified?


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Which evidence is that?

Concerning the covert DNA operation, what does that entail? Blacked out trailer windows, "those chemical drums are DNA primers"...
 
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