I gotta admit I'm not very inclined to believe in aliens behind every camera lens, but I also have a bit of an (unhealthy?) addiction to "UFO stories", particularly the show on the History Channel "UFO Hunters". A few days ago they talked about the skull, and I gotta admit it's a rather odd bit of reality to absorb. Apparently it can either be a hydrocephalic or something "unexplainable".
What intrigued me most about the story, as a biologist, was that the skull was found with a normal one next to it. When the normal one's DNA was analyzed, it was found to be completely human. When the "Starchild skull" was analyzed, it was found to have normal human mitochondrial DNA (which is passed down by the mother), but the genomic DNA showed no match to known human DNA primers in a PCR run, which would seem to indicate its father was of unknown origin! How exciting!
Anyway, I'm still not convinced of anything, but that show is addictive. hehe
It’s the first I’ve heard of it. Lemme look around.
In the meantime, tear yourself away from the glass teat as soon as is humanly possible. Everything seems to be turning into “Spike” nowadays, from AMC to even TV Land.
Minow was right.
I suspect the DNA research is likely right.
Beyond that . . . too little info.
Apparently we have a couple of failed Amway salesmen, judging by their picture, who have a human skull, and what do they do with it? They right off the bat seek out some huckster, someone who shops around the old canard that we're descendants of space aliens. Oops, my bad - it's alternative knowledge, ain't you heard? I dunno, if I were a neo-natal nurse, I would seek out more recognizable authorities of the sciences.
And how about that picture of Lloyd Pye? I could swear he's typically seen in the back of Tattooed Wrasslurs and their Pickum-Up Trucks Magazine. You know, in the tiny male enhancement ads?
Pye claims that the absence of nuclear DNA samples from the skull proves that Daddy was a space alien. That, of course, is a steaming pantload, because it can be extremely difficult to extract DNA from "recent" bones. And to take their insanity to it's extreme conclusion, are the (so far) unidentified remains of Unknown Soldiers proof of space aliens?
The huckster's website is a hoot. There's The Team. Oooh-la-la! Besides the skull owners, there's the Research Coordinator (Pye) ! But wait, there's even more! Yes, Virginia, there really is a UK Head of Operations!
Who on Earth could possibly fall for such crap?
Oh well, the bottom line is that we have some people exploiting the remains of a deformed child. I never thought I'd see the day that "ghouls" would be added to the list of superlatives heaped upon the UFO kook fringe.