Brian Dunning
@briandunning
I make movies & podcasts & books & stuff. apple.co/3VlpfOv theufo.movie
I took this picture of Mount St. Helens on Saturday, and for shiggles, added an overlay of how it looked pre-1980 from about the same angle. Note that the entire left front face is completely hollowed out.
Can your subconscious really "block out memories," and can they be recovered through hypnosis? Pop culture sure seems to think so. This week on Skeptoid: skep.us/1053
CERN's Large Hadron Collider is a social media star again — because, as usual, ignorant crackpot influencers think it's destroying the universe. This week on Skeptoid: skep.us/1052
O crazy heavy case full of lithium ion; How I do love thee so. Why doth thou not have rollers?
Interesting thing alert: Is the "reality shifting" trend truly a way we can use our minds to escape into a different world of our own making — as absolutely real as this one? It's worth looking at, and guess what, Skeptoid has done just that! skeptoid.com/episodes/1049
I am most pleased with this Skeptoid episode art — this show comes out in 2 or 3 weeks.
I just accidentally took a picture of myself and I think it's kind of cool.
Last year, the UFO community was abuzz with news that "transient" objects had been found in 1950s telescope observations; apparently satellites orbiting the Earth, before humans ever launched any! On this week's Skeptoid: skeptoid.com/episodes/1046
2026 and we're still trying to figure out how to teach children to READ. We have a good handle on it — but, apparently, not the will to do it right. THE READING WARS are on this week's Skeptoid: skep.us/1045
Can red light therapy really do all the things the wellness influencers claim it can — or even any of them? This week on Skeptoid: skeptoid.com/episodes/1044
Pretty sure every Star Trek episode ends with everyone laughing at a racist joke about Mr. Spock.
This week on Skeptoid: Yeah, strictly speaking, "the CIA" did spend $20M researching psychic powers. But this was just a very few crackpots; it hardly represented the CIA. Much the same as "the government's" interest in UFOs today. "The Men Who Walk Through Walls" - skeptoid.com/episodes/1043
Anticipating the upcoming Skeptoid Adventure to Cajun Country, a very special episode from the Louisiana swamps: "On the Trail of the Rougarou" skep.us/1042
The perfect ending to a Daddy-Daughter weekend on the Oregon coast.
Here's one for the diehard chemtrailers: This is 2.5 hours of the sky over the Pyrenees on May 19. Watch the wind move the contrails hundreds of miles without significant diffusion. Contains modified data from EUMETSAT Meteosat 2026. Processed with Pytroll by the Basque Meteorological Agency.
This week on Skeptoid: some "Full Moon Myths" that you may still buy into! Did you believe any of these? skeptoid.com/episodes/1041
Here is my quick take on the Pentagon UFO release — I went to all the best sources so you don't have to, and boiled it down. Today on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/briandun...
Apologies in advance for inflicting this upon you, but after years of fading from memory, the "chemtrails" conspiracy theory has come raging back with a vengeance, and is endorsed as reality at the highest levels of US government. This week on Skeptoid: skeptoid.com/episodes/1039
This week on Skeptoid: A secret plan by NASA to manage 7 seconds of zero gravity which might just tear the Earth apart! "Anatomy of a Hoax": skep.us/1038
Another #SkeptoidAdventure is in the books! Once again, about as many returned as embarked.
Because I'm not a bonehead who gets their information from TikTok influencers.
So there's this weird little story from 1864 about Colorado prospectors who found a huge, complete sarcophagus from Mars containing the petrified remains of a small being. Why was effort put into reporting this obviously-fake claim? This week on Skeptoid: skeptoid.com/episodes/1034