We’ve written about Todd Standing before, back in April. After that, he made a name for himself by riding the coattails of Survivorman Les Stroud and by being associated with Utah Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology at Idaho State University, Dr. Jeff Meldrum. While months have passed, oddly enough, nothing has changed. Standings evidence and claims are still preposterous and unverified. He regularly seeks out publicity as has been happening lately. This time, he is looking for money to test a hair sample for nuclear DNA. If there was any rationale for a new species to be out there, scientists would have been happy to study this sample. But there isn’t and they aren’t going to waste their time on it.

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Standing found the hair in Alberta between Banff and Radium and sent it for DNA testing. The tests came back showing the animal it belonged to was either human or some other uncatalogued species of primate. He also claims that there is little chance that there was something wrong with the sample. Remember, he is not a geneticist, this is one test, it’s not been published and if the quotes in this pieces are accurate, Standing does not sound credible.

“So that hair sample, I collected it in an area where I built these DNA traps of my own design and put apples up about twelve feet on a tree up near the top of a mountain, where I’m having tons of interactions with these Sasquatch and they’ve been taking whatever I put up there but they’ve been taking the apples specifically,” said Standing. “And while we’re sleeping there, takes these apples and left this hair sample for us.” “Sasquatch, again it’s evolved alongside human beings, probably has much more in common in the DNA than a chimpanzee. Sasquatch has a front facing nose unlike chimpanzees are internal. Sasquatch has a flat face. Sasquatch is bi-pedal, they’re the most man-like primate on the planet. Of course their DNA is going to test close that’s why I need a full nuclear DNA. That’s why I’m doing these interviews, is I’m trying to get somebody who will do those kinds of tests for me. You can’t pay for it.” “If you took a chimpanzee and bred it with a gorilla, and mixed those two, you would come back with some unknown species of primate, or chimp and orangutan, and that’s what they are afraid of. However, this species doesn’t test between any known primate, I’m not saying it’s a chimp and a human being mixed together, I’m saying you get chimp, human being, this is a homo sapien that tests further away from chimpanzees, gorilla and orangutans than homo sapiens do. I couldn’t have bred this, there’s no species to breed this with.”

This is “not even wrong” as they say, so mixed-up, and attempting to sound like he knows what he’s talking about. There are far more simple explanations than he bred a chimp and a gorilla.

Who is “afraid”? No one is afraid of the truth except Bigfooters who don’t want their precious belief balloon busted which has been what has happened in every DNA test held up to scrutiny.

Some Bigfooters are so disgusted with Standing that they have withdrawn support from Meldrum as well, wondering how he could support such a ploy. Meldrum appeared on Coast to Coast radio talking about Standing’s project. Some people have taken this as endorsement.

Boing Boing speculated this week that Standing’s face was the basis of “Blinky” the muppet-like Bigfoot visuals Standing has promoted.

Bigfootery is in the toilet. It has been for a few years now as it’s more about delusional believers, well meaning folks with blinding conviction to PROVE it exists, and a money grab by hoaxers and publicity seekers. If the past is any indication of the future, it will always be this.