In which I document the dwindling of the Creation Research Society. With graphs!

We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience

ICYMI: "Climate Change: New Data, New Debate," featuring Michael E. Mann (@michaelemann.bsky.social) and Genevieve Guenther (@doctorvive.bsky.social) for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Did I mention my idea for a reality show? "America's Next Top Model Organism." To be hosted by the glamorous Arabidopsis Thaliana (originally Mouse-Ear Cress, but that was too plain a moniker for show biz).

Trusted climate information should be easy to find, easy to use, and hard to erase. Climate.us is a new independent nonprofit resource built to keep trusted climate information accessible, accurate, and useful. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

Check out New York Times coverage of our full website launch! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/c...

ICYMI: Alice Roberts discusses "The Evolutionary Accidents That Made Us Human" for New Scientist.

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

Provoked by the recent death of a fossil fuel executive, psychologist Joe Árvai reflects on ways of combating climate change denial.

My review of C. W. Howell's Designer Science: A History of Intelligent Design in America is in the latest issue of Skeptical Inquirer. Paywalled, but drop me a line if you want a PDF.

In which I devote a three-part blog post to tracking the famous paleontologist Dr. Traas, a favorite authority of early antievolutionist writers.

"If you treat the misinformers' frame as a legitimate, good-faith scientific critique, you are helping them produce doubt. Don't do it. Don't be a Merchant of Doubt," writes Andrew Dessler (@andrewdessler.com).

ICYMI: Michael E. Mann (@michaelemann.bsky.social) discusses "The War on Science: Climate, Misinformation & How to Fight Back" on the Cut to the Chase podcast.

Joseph Heath informatively compares Yuval Hurari and Joseph Henrich on human evolution.

ICYMI: Naomi Oreskes discusses "How to Break Through Big Oil’s Climate Disinformation" with Dana R. Fisher for the Apocalyptic Optimist podcast.

Vanderbilt's Owen Jones just released Force of Nature — arguing that natural selection's logic is already being used to design antennas, treat cancer, and create adhesives. Evolution is not just history. It is a tool. 🧬

Mohamed Noor (@mafnoor.bsky.social), a recipient of NCSE's Friend of Darwin award, is profiled in The Scientist.

ICYMI: David Lipsky discusses his book The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial with Illinois Public Media.

In which I attempt to ascertain who supposedly described the divine creation of life as a pure humbug.

Reminder for NCSE members! Join us TODAY, Tuesday 6/9 at 3:00 ET for a live webinar with Rebecca Lindsey -- climate science communicator, former Climate.gov program manager, and co-founder of Climate.us. To sign up for a membership: ncse.ngo/member-social #climateaction #climatesky #edusky

Elizabeth Kolbert interviews Sheldon Whitehouse about his advocacy on climate change.

Hey, Madisonians! I'm speaking at the Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society in Madison, Wisconsin, at 11:00 a.m. on June 7.

ICYMI: climate journalists Andy Revkin (@revkin.bsky.social sky.social) and Chris Mooney (@chriscmooney.bsky.social) in conversation.

ICYMI: Eugenie C. Scott (@eugeniescott.bsky.social) explains "Why the Scopes Trial is Still Relevant" to San Francisco Regional Mensa.

Dana Nuccitelli (@dananuccitelli.bsky.social) discusses the recent study suggesting that "what used to be considered the worst-case climate change scenario now appears to be outside the realm of plausibility" and its implications.

The latest issue of RNCSE is now available online. Features include a report on the federal government's shuttering of its climate education resources and the fight for climate data, My COAST Galveston, and Climate of HOPE - ncse.ngo/issue/646

A really interesting profile of evolution education researcher Liz Barnes (@lizbarnes.bsky.social)!

In which I examine current state Republican party platforms to see what they say about evolution education (and climate change education as well).

Today, Ken Ham is bragging about the 19th anniversary of the Creation Museum. Thus, I’m posting my review of the visit I made during the first week in 2007. Note that some of the links in my review may have expired. Their admission fees have more than doubled. ncse.ngo/anti-museum

SkeptiCal June 27 in Oakland. Get info at www.skepticalcon.com

Sad news of the death of Rafe Pomerance, who helped to alert the public to the threat of climate change starting in the late 1970s.

ICYMI: Neil Shubin speaking on "Your Inner Fish Revisited: New Insights into Our Fishy Past."

Thanks, @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social, for resharing this article I wrote.

ICYMI: Ben Santer on "Speaking Science to Power: Lessons Learned from Being a Climate Scientist in an Age of Unreason."

In which I diligently pursue a claim about "not less than eighty geological theories which were hostile to the Scriptures" from Georges Cuvier to Ken Ham.

Thanks, @texasstandard.bsky.social & host Angela Kocherga for the great conversation about my latest with @hechingerreport.org. Listen: texasstandard.org/stories/in-t...

Shocker: Trump is totally wrong about the IPCC and RCP8.5.

ICYMI: "A New Window Into the Dino Extinction Event," from the AMNH (@amnh.org).

I was pleased to help Jordan Gass-Pooré (@jgasspoore.hazardpodcast.com) a little with her fascinating story on the fossil fuel industry's incursions into Texas's high schools.

I reviewed Vincent M. Cassone's Do Straw Men Evolve from Red Herrings? for the April/May 2026 issue of The American Biology Teacher. (Drop me a note if you want a PDF of the review.)

Giving a Scopes talk for SF Mensa Sunday, 2:30 Pacific 5/17. I just found out it’s open to the public. If anyone is interested, you can register (free). Info on the talk and a link to register is here online-presentations.tech

In which Eugenie C. Scott (@eugeniescott.bsky.social) explains how she participated in a hoax exposing a fraudulent faith healer.

"Representative Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) recently introduced federal legislation called the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act, which would grant sweeping legal immunity to the fossil fuel industry over its role in driving what scientists warn has become a climate emergency."

A provocative essay on "What I Learned from Teaching Darwin" from C. Brandon Ogbunu (@cbo.bsky.social).

Dana Nuccitelli (@dananuccitelli.bsky.social) revisits "An Inconvenient Truth."

In which I spot a fake Darwin quotation at the Field Museum. (To be fair, it was removed shortly thereafter.)

"Is climate denialism on the rise?" Katharine Hayhoe (@katharinehayhoe.com) on the World Economic Forum's podcast Radio Davos.

"Remarkably preserved relics from southern China -- more than half representing species new to science -- are transforming our understanding of organisms that survived the first mass extinction of the Phanerozoic Eon."

"The goal of the symposium, according to the document, is to sway judges toward a libertarian economic viewpoint in their rulings" -- including those involving climate science.

In which I contemplate H. H. Newman's claim, in 1921, that "there is no absolute proof of organic evolution."