Donald R. Prothero's Blog, page 5

What is Area 51 like? Come on our Skeptic Society tour of the "Extraterrestrial Highway" and find out!

Unknown to all of us, Roy Mackal, the last of the "old guard" of cryptozoology, apparently died in September. He was often promoted as a legitimate biology Ph.D. who took Nessie and Mokele Mbembe seriously, but was he really qualified to study these creatures?

The search for the Yeti has included a wide array of colorful characters, including Nazis, CIA agents, oil millionaires, and TV producers known for their hoaxes

Incompetent in science and in finance, Ken Ham's creationist organization seems to have learned its animal husbandry from Noah himself—to the detriment of the animals.

So did humans really arise by hybridization between pigs and chimpanzees? Not so fast….

Skeptics laugh at ideas like Bigfoot and UFOs and think the battle has been won. But has it? Studies of American beliefs, such as the Baylor Religious Surveys, show that most Americans believe in the paranormal, and non-believers are the exception.

Guess what Answers in Genesis is using to keep their sinking Creation "Museum" and "Ark Encounter" afloat? Junk bonds!

Even the NFL can play by the science-deniers' playbook when there is strong evidence that their sport causes pugilistic dementia and damages their players

The ridiculous idea of "kraken" arranging the ichthyosaur vertebrae as art claim made in 2011 appeared to be dead and forgotten—until last week, when it was revived with even worse logic—and the media ate it up!

The debunked "Bigfoot DNA" claim has just be re-asserted, and the Bigfooters have gone a step further: they proposed a scientific name for an organism that doesn't exist!