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Brian Dunning
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Brian Dunning writes Brian’s Bullshit-Free Zone, a personal blog at briandunning.substack.com about science and culture. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on an Air Force officer's search for Amelia Earhart's plane. Comments quote Brian Dunning of Skeptoid on the Earhart disappearance, the Itasca's radio contact, and the Howland Island crash area.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Separating Reality from Bullshit, Information from Misinformation: UFOs, conspiracy theories, alternative medicine scams, and all the other crap out there we must be wary of.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/i-remain-very-guarded-about-the-new2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-29
What Hacker News says?
From the source linked in another comment: (edit, ugh, I hate HN formatting, can never get it right even after all these years) ---- One piece of good news for Romeo’s search is that there are probably very few other planes anywhere near Howland. An airstrip was built on Howland in the 1930s in anticipation of commercial trans-Pacific flights, but Earhart was going to be the first to actually use it. During the war…
Comment linking /p/i-remain-very-guarded-about-the-new
on “An Air Force officer who spent $11M searching Earhart's plane may have found it”Submitted How to regard the "DB Cooper's identity solved" news as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTo quote Brian Dunning of Skeptoid: > The biggest secret of the Amelia Earhart mystery is that there is no mystery, and never has been. The USCG Itasca was on station at Howland and in partial radio contact with Earhart when she and Fred Noonan ran out of fuel and ditched after having slightly overshot the island in the dawn lighting conditions. The USN and USCG analyzed their data and identified this area as where…
Comment linking /p/i-remain-very-guarded-about-the-new
on “An Air Force officer who spent $11M searching Earhart's plane may have found it”