In 2008 Dunning produced Here Be Dragons, a free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking intended for general audiences, and received an award from the Portland Humanist Film Festival for this in November 2011. Each episode is under four minutes long and covers issues similar to those explored in more depth in the Skeptoid podcast, but is intended to reach a wider audience due to its brevity and availability on YouTube. Skeptical activism īeginning in 2006, Dunning hosted and produced Skeptoid, a weekly audio podcast dedicated "to furthering knowledge by blasting away the widespread pseudosciences that infect popular culture, and replacing them with way cooler reality." He is also the author of the book of the same title and a sequel.īeginning in 2007, Dunning periodically released video episodes of his InFact series. īetween 19 he was technical editor for FileMaker Advisor Magazine, and contributing editor of ISO FileMaker Magazine, 1996–2002, winning one of the FileMaker Excellence Awards at the 2001 FileMaker Developers Conference. In 2002, Dunning left his position as CTO of BuyLink. He discussed the company on CNNfn's Market Call, in Rhonda Schaffler's Maverick of the Morning segment. In 2000 he participated in a presentation on Buylink at The Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum called Bricks to Clicks in the New Internet Reality. Buylink received venture capital funding from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
In 1996 Dunning co-founded and was chief technology officer for Buylink Corporation. In August 2014, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for the company obtaining between $200,000 and $400,000 through wire fraud. He later became eBay's second biggest affiliate marketer he has since been convicted of wire fraud through a cookie stuffing scheme. ĭunning co-founded Buylink, a business-to-business service provider, in 1996, and served at the company until 2002. Dunning has also created the spin-off video series, inFact, and The Feeding Tube both available on YouTube.ĭunning has produced two educational films on the subject of critical thinking: Here Be Dragons in 2008, and Principles of Curiosity in 2017.
Skeptoid has been the recipient of several podcast awards such as the Parsec Award. He has hosted a weekly podcast, Skeptoid, since 2006, and he is an author of a series of books on the subject of scientific skepticism, some of which are based on the podcast. Problems playing this file? See media help.īrian Andrew Dunning (born 1965) is an American writer and producer who focuses on science and skepticism.
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