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Because I'll have double-checked and triple-checked and quadruple-checked the results.

And then I've gone out, as I do with the Otakama Mummy, bringing in further contiguous circles of experts to double-check me.

And not make it a circus.

Because I won't name the TV show that wanted to do it.

But they wanted me, they wanted to follow me around with a camera.

And I'm like, no, this isn't how science is done.

I can't do it with those strictures.

So I would say that if anybody's going to do it again, lock the things away with South American scientists.

You don't need a North American scientist to come in and do it.

There's plenty of smart people in South America who can do this properly.

And respect the rights of the indigenous peoples who own the sacred grounds within which these things were found.

I think that's important.

And then do the analysis right.

You know, they've said they made, I think, the mistake of saying, well, we've done the DNA and there's a lot of DNA that doesn't match.

Anything – and the stuff is several hundred years old.

Anything that old, you won't get a lot of good DNA out of it.

But just – they did the same thing with the Denisovan and the Neanderthal.

You have to correct the chemical errors that occur over time.

There are ways to what's called bioinformatically correct.

You need to do what's called over-reading of the genome where you do so many reads of it that you stack them all up line by line.