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
Look, there's nothing too silly about that picture of the The Minutemen. Aside from maybe their name. Sure, that's what they're called in the comic book, but times change. The name's...
The Internet Movie Database (NAACP) estimates the budget for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (MUFON) at 125 million dollars, which, at today’s exchange rate, translates to rou...
As a jury member at this year's Cannes Film Festival, I can let you in on some of the behind the scenes machinations. First of all, yes, Sean Penn always looks like that. Maybe he smells something hor...
I'm the one on the left, and that's
Norman Mailer on the right. This picture was taken before he crossed
me, of course. Any later and he would have been in the grave. Ask
anyone at Mailer's fu...
