Donald R. Prothero's Blog

Some people say, "Oh, there's anti-science on both sides of the political aisle." But that neglects one important fact: in only ONE political party are the leadership and the party platform dominated by science denial.

A creationist working in the CSUN Biology Department was fired for preaching creationism on the job. But there's more to the case than meets the eye….

Would you believe there is a patch of trapped garbage floating in the North Pacific bigger than the state of Texas? It's called the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch".

The climate deniers have long been screaming that "climate change is a hoax to make scientists rich". What is the evidence?

Last year at this time, Discovery Channel's "Shark Week" jumped the shark with faked documentaries. Now there is almost nothing but fiction left….

Ray Comfort, the uneducated street preacher who makes a living challenging science on the web, just slipped on his own banana peel.

Among the strangest of all bizarre pseudoscientific notions is the idea that ordinary contrails formed by high-flying aircraft are somehow a government conspiracy to spray us with toxic chemicals

When Neil DeGrasse Tyson appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" on July 25, it reminded us of some ugly threads of anti-intellectualism in the U.S.

A brief summary of my presentation at TAM 2014 in Las Vegas, July 9-13.

The results are in on the DNA from "Bigfoot" and "Yeti" and other ape-like cryptids