It is official, then: The Ketchum paper was REJECTED and FAILED PEER REVIEW.
No conspiracy theory can change what this means: their science is NOT sound. It failed.
- Steven Streufert
Controversial Russian scientist Igor Burtsev, who originally leaked the Dr. Melba Ketchum's DNA study results, had previously posted the following:
Yes, the paper of Dr Ketchum is under reviewing. And it is worth to be published. Just the situation now remindes me the war between North and South in the beginning of USA history... There are a lot of her supporters as well as a lot of her opponents and even some enemies...
The problem is that some people absolutize the science. Unfortunately science now is too conservative. One third of the population of the USA believes in BFs existing, but academic science even does not want to recognize the problem of their existing or not, just rejecting to dicuss this question. In such a condition this subject is under discussion of the broad public. We can't wait decades when scientists start to study this problem, forest people need to be protect now, not after half a sentury, when science wakes up.
Re the paper: the reviewed journals in the US refused to publish the paper. That is why Dr Ketchum has sent it to me to arrange publishing in any Russian reviewd journal. And I showed to our genetisits and understood that it was a serious work. I gave it up to the journal, now it's under reviewing.
Anyway, I informed public about the results of the study. The public waited for this info for more than a year, a lot of rumors were spreading around. And the public has the right to know it nevertheless "science" says about it.
- Igor Burtsev
SO...WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? IMO, NOTHING. THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE BIGFOOT COMMUNITY WHO ARE INSISTING THAT THE GENOME STUDY CONDUCTED BY DR. MELBA KETCHUM MUST PASS A PEER-REVIEW BEFORE THE FINDINGS CAN BE ACCEPTED. AS I PREDICTED LAST WEEK WHEN THE STUDY WAS MADE PUBLIC, THIS ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN. THESE SAME INTOLERANT AND DESPOTIC SCIENTISTS, WHO HAVE DISMISSED THE EXISTENCE OF BIGFOOT FOR DECADES, ARE NOT GOING TO ADMIT THAT THIS BEING IS HALF-HUMAN OR OTHERWISE. AS WELL, THE ARBITRARY BIGFOOT RESEARCHERS AND ENTHUSIASTS, WHO HAVE DISMISSED THE THEORY THAT BIGFOOT HAS A SUPERNATURAL AND/OR NON-TERRESTRIAL CONNECTION, ARE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO ADMIT TO THAT EITHER. SO WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE US? IF WE CONTINUE TO IGNORE THE PRECURSORS OF DISCOVERY AND REFUSE TO BE OPEN-MINDED TO IDEOLOGY, THEN WE MAY HAVE CEASED AS AN ADAPTING AND DEVELOPING SPECIES. I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE STUDY FOR SEVERAL REASONS, THOUGH I FEEL I'M NOT IN A POSITION TO DIVULGE ANY OF THE INFORMATION AT THIS TIME. I CONTINUE TO REMAIN VIGILANT AND INTREPID FOR THE TRUTH...LON
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