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Friday, February 15, 2013

Credibility of Journal that Published Bigfoot DNA Findings Called into Question

Do you believe Bigfoot, aka Sasquatch, exists?

As if the idea of Bigfoot wasn't shrouded in enough mystery, the credibility of a scientific journal that has published findings based on reported Bigfoot DNA is being questioned.  According to a report by The Huffington Post, the only content of the DeNovo Journal of Science is the research on Bigfoot. The current edition of DeNovo is listed as Volume 1, Issue 1.  The post goes on to say Texas geneticist Melba Ketchum, who, along with a  team of experts in genetics, forensics, imaging and pathology, spent five years studying the DNA samples, acquired the rights to the journal and renamed it so as not to lose its "peer-reviewed" status. Peer-reviewed journals are scholarly journals that only publish articles that have passed through a …

max david

1:33 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013

She claims she bought the unpublished Journal of Advanced Multidsciplinary Zoology which did pass her work through it's peer-review, which is in effect Scholastica Publishing Platform. But, no one can find who or what that Journal was and no evidence any peer-review as performed there, or passed. The bizarre twists and untruths follow this study the entire five years. She slo cliamed she could …   more ›

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