Why is Bigfoot eating bagels?   Three weeks ago, a Texas-based
geneticist created a media spectacle by claiming to have
sequenced the DNA of the mythical Bigfoot, in what is most
certainly either an act of purposeful deception or unintentional
stupidity, with a small sprinkle of a possibility of the claim
being the truth.  On November 24th, a press release was
published on the DNA Diagnostics website titled “‘Bigfoot’ DNA
sequenced in upcoming genetics study.” In it, Dr. Melba S.
Ketchum explained that in a study that would soon be released,
she would prove that male, non-human primates mated with early
human females to create a line of Bigfoots, which her study
genetically identifies as an “unknown hominid hybrid species in
North America.”  Ketchum, who graduated with a Doctorate of
Veterinary Medicine from Texas A&M in 1978 and has been the
director of DNA Diagnostics for the past 15 years, analyzed 109
DNA samples submitted by individuals throughout North America
over the course of five years. Out of these