Donald R. Prothero's Blog, page 4

Is there a distinction between "observational" and "historical" science? Only in Ken Ham's deluded thinking...

Hundreds of students try to get graduate degrees in paleontology, hoping to study dinosaurs. But are there jobs at the other end?

My postmortems on the Ham on Nye "debate" last Tuesday

Without any public notice, most colleges and universities are largely staffed by temporary adjunct faculty, with poor pay, no benefits, and no commitment to the institution.

After 35 years of teaching at elite private colleges, it was a real culture shock to teach at a junior college—and see a very different system at work.

Anti-vaxxers point to the rise of autism cases and blame it on the increasing use of vaccines. But as all critical thinkers know, correlation is not causation!

No one who was in Southern California on Jan. 17, 1994, can forget the Northridge quake, the strongest quake in the U.S. in recent memory

What happens when you merge "Survivor" and "Finding Bigfoot"? The "$10 Million Bigfoot Bounty"!

What is going on in Area 51?

A new species of tapir has just been discovered in the Amazon basin. Does this mean that all the other undiscovered cryptids, from Bigfoot to Nessie, are therefore real as well?