December 9, 2013
Melba Ketchum and Sharon Hill have a war of words on twitter going on:
I had a discussion with Melba Ketchum today on Twitter regarding her continued claims that Bigfoot will be proven true. Some of it spilled over to Facebook – her favorite communication outlet. I was surprised she responded and it went on for quite a while. For those of you who missed it, good for you.
For background, note that my site, Doubtful News, has been critical of Melba’s work with good cause (melba ketchum | Doubtful News). I also wrote a chronicle of the history of her project for Skeptical Briefs (which you can see here The Ketchum Project: What to Believe about Bigfoot DNA ‘Science’ – CSI) and in Skeptical Inquirer. I’m not some lone skeptic picking at her claims. She has the entire scientific community against her. She revels in being the maverick, persecuted, pulls the Galileo gambit. I find it distasteful.
This is the first time she responded to me in public. She should totally stop doing that.Sharon Hill
.@DrMelbaKetchum Then stop hyping it! Your promises mean nothing.
— Doubtful News (@DoubtfulNews) December 6, 2013
@DoubtfulNews If you people would print fact and not opinion, you wouldn’t be saying that. I am not hyping, just supporting our resesearch.
— Dr. Melba Ketchum (@DrMelbaKetchum) December 6, 2013
.@DrMelbaKetchum Unimpressive. Science is not done in self-owned journals, blogs and Facebook.
— Doubtful News (@DoubtfulNews) December 6, 2013
@DrMelbaKetchum I have been more than fair. Had high hopes. Your work was sloppy and biased. If true, do more to support that it’s not.
— Doubtful News (@DoubtfulNews) December 6, 2013
@DoubtfulNews I have no blog. I answer questions on FB. I want the Sasquatch protected. Like @JaneGoodallInst I promote for that reason.
— Dr. Melba Ketchum (@DrMelbaKetchum) December 6, 2013
@DoubtfulNews Our ms passed peer review but the journal from a journal other than denovo. I have stated this repeatedly.
— Dr. Melba Ketchum (@DrMelbaKetchum) December 6, 2013
@DoubtfulNews There is a link to the peer reviews and my responses on our website. http://t.co/JBfOhPND8R
Read the rest at Melba Ketchum’s twitter feed, or Sharon Hill’s summary here.
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
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