Brian Thompson
Brian is the editor of The Amateur Scientist (www.amateurscientist.org), a daily news blog covering science, politics, religion, and dick jokes from a skeptical perspective. He also produces and co-hosts The Amateur Scientist Podcast, a skeptical comedy program whose past guests have included magician James "The Amazing" Randi, physicist Dr. Michio Kaku, Upright Citizens Brigade member Matt Besser, and the Cigarette Smoking Man himself, Mr. William B. Davis. All aspects of Amateur Scientist Industries are meant to promote reason, humanism, and dick jokes.He also edits GameSnobs.com, a site about video games and the virgins who play them.
Brian's writing has also appeared in Skeptical Inquirer magazine, on the popular chick-centric geektainment site PinkRaygun.com, and in the book 101 Things Every Man Should Know How to Do, in which he advises readers on how to grow a successful beard.
Blogs by this Author
Some are saying that this is the best summer at the movies in the history of summers at the movies. Admittedly, it’s been pretty good. While The Dark Knight didn’t ask you to c...
Some questions I asked myself while watching The Dark Knight:
If Superman growled all the time, would anyone ever suspect he was really Clark Kent?
Hong Kong?
Why?
Couldn't Gordon have ju...
There’s a moment in Mama Mia! where I almost felt like my time and money hadn’t been wasted. That life might be worth living again. As Meryl Streep and her screaming friend-g...
Former White House press secretary and Fox News anchor Tony Snow has died of cancer. Back when he was still breathing and lying to America for a living, Snow asked the members of the White House pre...
While at Dragon*Con this Labor Day weekend, I'll be staying in a downtown Atlanta hotel that cost me $194 for four nights. No, not per night. Maybe I should be worried. I don't und...
Well, this is war. A while back, I reviewed the first season DVD set of A&E’s Paranormal State for my friends over at PinkRaygun.com, and I got a little carried away. I expected th...
Jesus Christ, my ex-girlfriend has gotten fat. I ran into her last night at the bar, which is weird because I almost never go to the bar. Mostly because I hate running into people. ...
I learned a lot from Wall-E this weekend. For one, there’s no reason to ever pay for snacks at a movie theater when the Wal-Mart down the street has a seven-foot-tall steel cage full of ...
With James McAvoy currently bending bullets around the brains of America's moviegoers, I thought it might be appropriate to revisit one of his breakout performances. No, I'm not talking about ...
Last autumn, I visited the set of J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek film. Well, “visited” may not be the right word. I hid behind a crate of hamdingers until I could sucker pu...
