Oct 9, 2011
Donald Prothero is a palaeontologist who is very much disliked by
the Discovery Institute and loved by skeptics, science aficionados,
and students. He has written several books and over 200 papers for
peer reviewed journals, popular magazines, and anthologies. He
wrote "Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters,"
"Catastrophes!: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Tornadoes, and Other
Earth-Shattering Disasters," "Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs:
Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet," as well as
numerous text books and scientific monographs. Don is in town for
the Geological Society of America meetings, and has agreed to come
by the studio and chat with Greg Laden about dinosaurs, climate
change, science denialism and, of course, the psychology of
cryptozoology, which is the subject of one of his current writing
projects. Professor Prothero is Professor of Geology at Occidental
College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of
Technology. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and
the Paleontological Society.