My New Book is out on Amazon.com
Finally, more than seven years after the publication of Melba Ketchum et al.'s famous paper, Novel North American Hominins: Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes and Associated Studies," I have consolidated my posts and other studies on this topic in one book, The Sasquatch Genome Project: A Failed DNA Study, which is available on Amazon.com as a Kindle ebook or a paperback. Kindle books can be read on a cell phone, tablet or PC with free software downloaded from Amazon. You do not need a Kindle tablet.
About this Book (from the book)
Because of the extraordinary claims in Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes and Associated Studies (Ketchum et al., 2013) the Bigfoot Community has been debating it ever since. This book is the result of research over seven years (more than the original study) in understanding the Sasquatch Genome Project and its published paper. Dr. Haskell Hart tells the story of his increasing involvement and understanding of the paper as he presents his own results and conclusions, which are at odds with the Ketchum et al. paper. He first explains the structure and function of DNA as background. With 45 figures and 29 tables of data (more than in the original paper), all carefully explained to the layman, this extensive scientific critique of the paper is the only one of its kind.
Whereas this blog is a chronological report of my findings, the book is better organized by topics and includes more background for the reader, including supplementary figures and tables and 65 footnotes.
I created the book, my first, with Kindle Create, a free download from Kindle Direct Publishing. I highly recommend this method of self-publishing. The books are only printed and sold through Amazon.com when there are orders, and you have absolutely no upfront costs except to register a copyright, if you so choose. There is no warehousing of books which may not be sold.
I have a few suggestions which I learned the hard way.
1. Try to complete your book in Word with all the details, including footnotes, figures, tables (if you have any) and page breaks, which are not possible to do in Kindle Create.
2. Include your Figure and Table Titles and Captions in the JPEG file with the figure or table, not as a separate text, which may not be on the same page after final formatting and preparation.
3. Be prepared to redo itallcs and bolds in Kindle Create. These do not carry over on uploading from Word.
4. Line Spacing, indentation, and paragraph separation will need to be redone after uploading to Kindle Create.
5. Footnotes cannot be edited in any way after uploading, and must be linked to text in the ebook version. So, get it right in Word.
6. You will need to format and possibly redesign your covers (front and back) using their templates. There are very precise requirements in order to keep the front cover, spine, and back cover properly separated in a single print page. DO NOT attempt this until you know how many pages are in your final print version, which is different from the Word or Kindle Create versions before final formatting and pagination.
I am answering questions and rebuttals here and on The Bigfoot Forums:
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Dr haskel claims to have found issue with 1 of the (20) MTdna genomes finding a dog marker that no other blast program found. Another researcher claiming to have debunked the study found opposum in 1 of the MTdna genomes. But neither of these guys found each others claims in a different MTdna. For you to find an issue in 1 genome credibility would dictate that everybody that finds an offending marker also finds all the offending markers. Dr. Hart has found what he claims to be a dog marker in a human MTdna majority genome. He believes he can denounce the other (19) MTdna genomes with this single marker. Dr. Hart also contests 1 of the nuclear genomes but not all 3. Without going into his rediculious contention let me ask this. Has he disproved over half of the genomes? No. His claims and all his nonsense banter are over a challenge to 8% of the genomes presented. He claims it took him 7 years. Which was more than the study. That is also false. Melba first found human Mtdna in sasquatch in spring of 2003. They organized all aspects of the study before the start of the study in 2007. Dr haskell didnt do any dna sequencing. He mealy scanned genones for a diffetent species markers. Most likely with a blast program and dna data banks he didnt build. So none of his markers were dirived from test he did and the markers identification as dog was a marker identifed by sone else on a genome they ran a MTdna test. Dr hart osnt in the field of genetics nor can he comment on any of the procedures he didnt do. There were 100 experts involved in the project and all of them had blast programs. How could their blast program miss a dog marker? Because it easnt a dog marker in 2003. If this marker exsists in only one of the samples how can you debunk the other 19. This book is a collection of nonsense. Did he find a problem in 8% of the reported results? Maybe. But hes not telling you about the genomes with no red flags. Only one of those needs to be accurate for me to know the study proves bigfoots exsistence.
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