Not Yeti

The other day my social media feeds blew up with the note that a British researcher had done some DNA analysis on purported Yeti hair and come up with an interesting result: that it actually matched the DNA of a 40000 year old polar bear jawbone from Norway. Following on that logic, the scientist proposes that the yeti is in fact a previously unknown species of bear, or that it's a hybrid between brown bears and polar bears than has set up shop in the Himalayas. And a depressing number of those notes - and of the news articles discussing the theory - were of the "ha-ha, you were wrong and there's no bigfoot" variety.
Which is depressing, for a couple of reasons.
Kind of a jerk move to respond to what you think is the crushing of someone's dreams with a Ralph Wiggum laugh, people.
It's one result. There's still no holotype. Let's get a holotype and some more data points before we declare this conclusive.
This is exactly how science - even cryptozoology - is supposed to work. Gather samples, test evidence, come up with a hypothesis. From where I sit atop a pile of Loren Coleman books, it's actually really cool that this level of scientific rigor is being brought to the question, and I look forward to seeing the extended research. Cryptozoology is all about finding unknown animals through research; correct me if I'm wrong, but that's potentially exactly what just happened here. And that's pretty neat.
If this guy is right, and the yeti really is a giant unknown bear, HOW FREAKING COOL IS THAT? I mean, OK, not a gigantopithecus or whatever, but still. GIANT UNKNOWN POLAR BEARS OF THE HIMALAYAS. Send out David Attenborough, stat!
I don't see how anybody could really, in the long run, be disappointed by that. Except, possibly, the first one of Attenborough's camera guys to get eaten by one.