July 10, 2023
Many strange notions about Planet Earth are finding a foothold in the mainstream: Flat-earthers, geocentrists, hollow earth, expanding earth, dowsing, crystal healing, and so many more. Thanks to the internet, these nonsensical theories get much more publicity—and many more believers—than they did just a few years ago.
Join us on Thursday, July 20, at 7:00 p.m. ET for our next Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with Donald Prothero. What’s going on with the sudden popularity of long-debunked pseudoscientific ideas about our planet? More importantly, how do we know that these ideas are wrong? What is the evidence? Prothero will dive into the booming online culture of earth-based pseudoscience and draw on his extensive background in geology and paleontology to put the nonsense claims to rest.
Free registration is required to take part in this live Zoom event, so sign up right now.
Donald Prothero has taught college geology and paleontology for over forty-five years at Caltech, Columbia, and Cal Poly Pomona, as well as at Occidental, Knox, Vassar, Glendale, Mt. San Antonio, and Pierce Colleges. He earned his BA in geology and biology from University of California Riverside in 1976 and his MA (1978), MPhil (1979), and PhD (1982) in geological sciences from Columbia University. He is the author of over forty-eight books and over 380 scientific papers, mostly on the evolution of fossil mammals and on using the earth’s magnetic field changes to date fossil-bearing strata. He has earned multiple awards, including the James Shea Award of the National Association of Geology Teachers for outstanding writing and editing the geosciences and the AIPG Award for Outstanding Achievement.
This live Zoom event is FREE, but advance registration is required so sign up today.