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[pisskop]

Ill believe this when we revive Bigfoot via frog DNA and put him in a park with a fat greedy mailman in charge of coding security.

[Agdune]

Wait, wait... someone with the last name Ketchum named their daughter... Melba?

"Hey, honey, I have this incredible idea; let's make sure that our child loves our sortof-terrible last name by giving her an amazingly bad first name!"
"Brilliant sweetie! The name Ketchum will live on!"

And so, Melba was born. Probably after her parents decided the name 'Bessie' was too obvious.

[Loud Whispers]

Melba S. Ketchum has two articles on google scholar, both in the proper field regarding forensic genetics.

A regular google search only turns up information regarding bigfoot, and she's been on Coast to Coast AM.

release the data

Funny enough, I've seen a few hoaxes all saying they were on Coast to Coast radio...

[Neonivek]

Wait, wait... someone with the last name Ketchum named their daughter... Melba?

"Hey, honey, I have this incredible idea; let's make sure that our child loves our sortof-terrible last name by giving her an amazingly bad first name!"
"Brilliant sweetie! The name Ketchum will live on!"

And so, Melba was born. Probably after her parents decided the name 'Bessie' was too obvious.

Yeah I am going to have to admit... if someone told me that name I would have thought it was made up.

Afterall Melba is a toast and Ketchum is an anime character.

[freeformschooler]

I'm disappointed in you all. Ketchum is an awesome-sounding last name that Pokemon has dirtied. Dirtied.

I know a family whose last name is Buttz.

[King DZA]

So, if I read that correctly, Bigfoot is the bastard creation resulting from our ancestors getting freaky with a species of nameless apes?

Not nearly as mystical as I would have liked...

[MrWiggles]

So, if I read that correctly, Bigfoot is the bastard creation resulting from our ancestors getting freaky with a species of nameless apes?

Not nearly as mystical as I would have liked...

May have been rape. Like how Prizzly are brought into the world.

[Jimmy]

Yeah, my thoughts on this are "Peer Reviewed Publication or GTFO"

Seriously, until there's anything worth showing in terms of raw data I'm treating this as just more nonsense.

[scriver]

I thought somebody had been reading yesterday's Cracked. Exhibit number one, to be exact.

[The Darkling Wolf]

I'm disappointed in you all. Ketchum is an awesome-sounding last name that Pokemon has dirtied. Dirtied.

I know a family whose last name is Buttz.

Please tell me they have at least one child named Seymour.

[Reelya]

So, there a five year long dna study that under peer review, showing a novel dna sequence of a human hybrid with an unknown north american ape.

Damn. This is kinda of awesome.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/prweb10166775.htm

I have to let you know that PRweb isn't a news site, it's an aggregator for private company PR releases, I've read some really nutjob conspiracy theory stuff from that source. They'll print pretty much any old crap, it's not journalism, it's company press releases printed "as is" - but the companies try and disguise them as "news" about their product or research, which then gets picked up by Reuters, AP, or other journals - usually without ANY editing or fact-checking, etc and can be used to legitimize a story.

Sometimes scammers seem to use that avenue to "legitimize" their scams, and I've seen anti-Obama conspiracies published through the channel too, which then get picked up by the right-wing media.

[Reelya]

Let's look at the story:

1 no university is listed

2 " Dr. Melba S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, TX" is the only person mentioned. Nacogdoches, TX is a town of 32000 people.

3 google reveals she heads a DNA testing company:
http://www.dnadiagnostics.com/staff.html

4 "Ketchum is a veterinarian whose professional experience includes 27 years of research in genetics, including forensics."
She's a fucking veterinary doctor, not a research scientist or expert on human ancestors

5:

Ketchum calls on public officials and law enforcement to immediately recognize the Sasquatch as an indigenous people:

“Genetically, the Sasquatch are a human hybrid with unambiguously modern human maternal ancestry. Government at all levels must recognize them as an indigenous people and immediately protect their human and Constitutional rights against those who would see in their physical and cultural differences a ‘license’ to hunt, trap, or kill them.”

Who the fuck ...

Ok, so veterinary doctor who runs an animal+human dna testing lab in a town of 32000 people is the sole source for this story.

EDIT: here's NBC on the story, raising the same questions I did:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49980829/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.ULUnIO-_9lY

[Cthulhu]

Her DNA testing company was given an F by the better business bureau, mostly for failing to deliver test results and cashing the checks anyway.

[The Darkling Wolf]

So.



Seems legit?

[scriver]

Yes. Bigfoot is real you guys!