WIRED's pseudoscience fact check pulls hardest among five uploads
Reckless Ben's search-questions video is quietly gaining speed on its third day, while his origin story has barely been found.
WIREDStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Astrobiologist Answers Mars Questions
WIRED sits just short of five billion lifetime views, and the five videos it added this week lean heavily on experts taking questions: an astrobiologist on Mars, a psychiatrist on psychopath myths from Reddit, a biomedical scientist on pseudoscience.
That last one, "Biomedical Scientist Fact Checks Pseudoscience Slop," is the busiest thing on the channel. Two days old and closing in on a million views, it opened fast and is still gathering views well ahead of everything else. The Mars video, three days older, holds the week's biggest total but moves at a much gentler clip now.
The odd pair is Reckless Ben. "Reckless Ben Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions" is drawing slightly more views a day now than on its first day, which is not how most videos age. "The Origin of Reckless Ben," posted a day later, has stayed small. Maybe viewers want the answers more than the backstory?
Among the documentary and journalism channels, WIRED sits fourth of nine by subscribers, behind National Geographic, VICE and BBC Earth, with truly the next one down.
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The videos drawing views on WIRED right now
- Channel
- WIRED
- Subscribers
- 13,000,000
- Videos published this week
- 5
- Video published
- September 22, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,170,605
The numbers
Here are the figures behind WIRED's week.
