In the Fall of 2012,a Veterinarian from Texas Issued a Press

question 83

Multiple Choice

In the fall of 2012,a veterinarian from Texas issued a press release stating that her team of scientists had completed a five-year DNA study confirming the existence of "Sasquatch" or "Bigfoot." Which of the following statements,if true,would lend support to her claims?

• A) She released her findings in a press conference prior to any peer review of her findings.
• B) There are no corresponding lines of documented physical evidence (fossil record, historic record, undisputed clear picture or video, or evidence that the environment could support a breeding population of large primates in the areas where they have been reported) to support her claims.
• C) The paper is published in an online source that consists of one issue with only this one paper (the full paper is for sale), and this new online publication is owned by the veterinarian.
• D) She consulted experts in the field of human genomics and made her DNA samples available to them for analysis.

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