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
This doesn’t come from a reliable source, but it’s just too awesome not to pass along. I’ve been getting word now for weeks that Nabisco is testing the hell out of the new Or...
If I see another adult reading part thirty-whatever in an epic series of kid lit fantasy novels, I’m calling Dateline. I understand that all the post-pubescents trolling through the chil...
There was something about her water balloon breasts straining at the oft-washed white cotton of her three-sizes-too-small halter top that sent my bodily beverages bubbling. I often experience ...
I'm sure by now most of you have read Devin's article about the fallacies of religious belief. If you haven't, why haven't you? It's right here. Just click it. You know you wan...
Do you remember the glory days of web-based movie news? The thrilling tales of adventure as unemployed Australian twenty-year-olds snuck onto the blue screen sets of the new Star Wars film.&nb...
I remember when I saw my first sandworm. It’s vagina dentate maw seduced me from the cover of The Dune Encyclopedia at the public library. I was hiding from a homeless gentleman wh...
I’m struggling to write this now, as I’ve just lost a dear friend. To protect his family’s privacy, I’ll call him Steve Applewhite. Steve was a video game designe...
I look at the whale lying next to me in bed and consider how the rising sun shines from my window behind her. How the light swaddles her and contrasts with her pearl-white skin so the ring aro...
By now you’ve probably heard that Parker Posey will be providing the voice for Optimus Prime in next summer’s Crashin’ In: A Transformers Adventure (previously known simply as Tran...
Amongst several other jobs of varying secrecy, I work as a fact checker for a pornographic playing card company. I won't tell you which one exactly, but it's in the top three. (Okay, it's Queens of Sp...
