Ketchum, while indeed a scientist, does have credibility issues herself. Her company, DNA Diagnostics, gets an F from the Better Business Bureau, and has had more than two dozen complaints lodged against it.
Secondly, the news release makes no mention whatsoever of the source of DNA for this study. Wouldnt you think thered be a real live Sasquatch from which to get the DNA before youd actually have the DNA?
A rational person might.
Some digging for this eventually led me to a blog post by Robert Lindsay discussing the source. Apparently the DNA comes from I kid you not blueberry bagel-loving Bigfeet in Michigan.
Ketchums spokesman seems to be Robin Lynne, a longtime Bigfoot habituator who lives in rural Michigan. She claims that there are up to 10 Bigfoots living around her property, and every day, she feeds them a variety of foods including Blueberry bagels, which they are particularly fond of. A lot of people have ridiculed her story, but according to information I have, there may indeed be Bigfoots on the property assuming some of the things she is relating are actually occurring.
For instance, one morning, Robin went out to her feeding box and found it locked! She heard noises inside, and when she opened it, the food was gone and there was an opossum inside!
She let the opossum out, but she was puzzled. Sure the possum could possibly have gotten into the box, but there is no way the possum could have gotten into the box and then locked the door to it afterwards. Shades of a locked room mystery here. Lynne concluded that the Bigfoots must have put the opossum into the box as a joke.
Ketchum writes that there are aspects of the Bigfoot nuclear subhuman DNA that she cannot find in any DNA database, and according to her, this means that the DNA is not of this Earth. In the paper, she reportedly refers to this as angel DNA. Whether she is trying to say that it is from angels literally or whether this is her way of saying that its from outer space, I do not know.