“This weekend on The History Channel, someone digs through old plastic junk (“It’s a Dukes of Hazzard wastebasket!”), someone else tries to sell a doll head (“I used to take the heads off the bodies, and I kept the heads”) . . . and… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
“When historian of science Naomi Oreskes surveyed all peer-reviewed papers on climate change published between 1993 and 2003 in the world’s leading scientific journal,… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
“This weekend on The History Channel, someone digs through old plastic junk (“It’s a Dukes of Hazzard wastebasket!”), someone else tries to sell a doll head (“I used to take the heads off the bodies, and I kept the heads”) . . . and Larry the Cable Guy taste-tests Tabasco sauce (“I can’t feel my dadgum tongue!”). The History Channel. What the hell happened… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share
“[N]early every creationist debater will mention the second law of thermodynamics and argue that complex systems like the earth and life cannot evolve, because the second law seems to say that everything in nature is running down and losing energy, not getting more complex. But that's NOT what the second law says; every creationist has heard this but refuses to… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share
So before everyone begins the big party for 'Brontosaurus' and celebrates this huge diversity of sauropod names, let's hold our horses. — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
“I have blogged previously about the dangerous and deadly effects of science denialism, from the innocent babies unnecessarily exposed to deadly diseases by other kids whose parents are anti-vaxxers, to the frequent examples of how acceptance of evolution helps us stop diseases and pests (and in the case of Baby Fae, rejection of evolution was fatal), to the long-term effects… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share
“Ours is a time of space telescopes, electron microscopes, supercomputers, and the worldwide web. This is not a time for parsing the lessons given… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
“Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
