Rhett Allain is an American associate professor of physics at Southeastern Louisiana University and the author of the Wired magazine science blog Dot Physics.

He received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 2001 and works in the field of physics education research.

[5][6] He has also criticized television shows, including Fight Science, that perform poorly controlled experiments which are presented as scientific.

[7] In 2008 Allain rejected the concept of sailing dead downwind faster than the wind as a violation of conservation laws, stating that "this is the same situation as people trying to make energy from nothing".

Rhett Allain is also a host on Southeastern's KSLU Radio with his show "STEM Science Radio", which Allain says is , "...redundant because science appears twice, but I didn't come up with the name."