Matthew Whitaker is a truly weird dude

Examples:

* Claimed that “DNA evidence collected in 2013 proves that Bigfoot does exist”; had a website selling Bigfoot paraphernalia.

* Tried to raise money using bitcoin for time-travel research.

OK, maybe he should not be an Attorney General, or an attorney, or even a salesman for General Tires … but I love this guy! He is the ultimate symbol of truly representative government. Where is someone to speak for the country’s crackpots, for those who have been anally probed inside UFOs, for those who think 9-11 was an inside job, for those who believe the moon landing never happened, for those who think the earth is flat? There are a lot of crackpots in the country, and they have never had anyone in Washington powerful enough to give them a voice.

Their time has come!

5 thoughts on “Matthew Whitaker is a truly weird dude

  1. She claimed to have seen them in Facebook posts. Kinda sad, really.

    “Yes, I do know about them now. I am glad I didn’t see them until after most of the data was in. I needed to prove it scientifically to myself first as a former skeptic before hitting the field so to speak and actually observing them. I had no fear, the ones I encountered were peaceful and gentle.”

  2. I can’t attest to the sincerity of Matthew Whitaker, but DNA evidence collected in 2013 may prove that Bigfoot does exist. Google Dr Melba Ketchum. She was roasted by scientific researchers for not knowing how to properly present a research paper and for getting overly emotional in her paper (she called for legislation to protect Bigfoot) but it seemed nobody every actually countered her DNA findings.

    1. It appears that there was nothing at all credible in Dr. Ketchum’s study, from her own credentials (she is a veterinarian, not a geneticist), to her claims to have actually seen a family of Bigfoot regularly at a site she refused to name, to her avoiding scientific questions at Bigfoot conventions, to not allowing a peer-review process, to the fact that she fabricated a scientific journal to publish her findings. Complete history.

      But it wasn’t just her personal credibility which came up lacking. It turns out that her paper was nonsense. The most telling criticism of all came from Leonid Kruglyak of Princeton University, who did review the paper and clearly stated that all of Ketchum’s findings were scientific gibberish, and that she had absolutely no understanding of genetics. His exact quote, “To state the obvious, no data or analyses are presented that in any way support the claim that their samples come from a new primate or human-primate hybrid. Instead, analyses either come back as 100 percent human, or fail in ways that suggest technical artifacts.”

      Professor Kruglyak is now chairman of the Genetics department at UCLA.

      1. Well, most likely Melba is toast.

        Your first paragraph referred to what I wrote about above that she did not properly present her paper and she got overly emotional (or overly personally invested.)

        I don’t believe she ever claimed to have seen a family of Bigfoot, but that she spoke to a number of people who claimed to have been in regular contact with Bigfoot. Part of her emotional investment was her becoming (or already being a supporter) of native rights and Bigfoot (and being in regular contact with Bigfoot) is supposedly part of the native tradition of a number of tribes.

        So, her attitude seemed to be, in part, ‘anybody who doesn’t believe in Bigfoot is denying native oral tradition so they are anti native.’

        I don’t think she didn’t allow a peer review process as much as she couldn’t get her paper peer reviewed, which is what led her to self publish.

        I wasn’t aware of the review by Professor Kruglyak, but there are, or were, a number of geneticists back in 2013 who thought her findings merited further study.

  3. Cat owners of the world can definitely attest to the fact that the Earth is NOT flat. If it were, cats would have knocked everything off by now!

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