Mark Hoofnagle has a PhD in physiology from the University of Virginia and is currently a 3rd year medical student. His interest in denialism concerns the use of denialist tactics to confuse public understanding of scientific knowledge.
Chris Hoofnagle is an attorney with experience in consumer protection advocacy in Washington and Sacramento. His interest in denialism concerns the use of rhetorical tactics by various industries in dumbing down policy debates. He is the author of The Denialists' Deck of Cards.
PalMD is a pseudonym for Peter A. Lipson, a practicing internist in the Midwestern United States. Aside from the great joy he finds in his family and his work, he likes communicating some of that joy to others. He has a special interest in the ways patients---and we are all patients at one time or another---are deceived by charlatans. He aims to change the world, one reader at a time. Previous writings can still be found here.
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July 31, 2007
Category: Medicine
What is it about reporting on pot that makes people so Puritanical? Today I read in the Guardian Cannabis joints damage lungs more than tobacco - study. A single cannabis joint may cause as much damage to the lungs as...
Posted by MarkH at 11:46 AM • 23 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
Just a reminder, I would like all submissions to the 66th Skeptics Circle by today....
Posted by MarkH at 8:21 AM • 0 Comments •
July 30, 2007
Category: Anti-drug nonsense
A lot of people are talking about a new study showing a 40% increase risk of "psychosis", which I first heard news of in this story, from the Daily Mail: A single joint of cannabis raises the risk of schizophrenia...
Posted by MarkH at 6:02 AM • 34 Comments •
July 29, 2007
Category: Politics
We already knew from former Surgeon General Carmona's testimony that this was happening, but now the WaPo brings us a specific example of science being squelched by a political appointee. It's not only inappropriate, but just despicable. A surgeon general's...
Posted by MarkH at 5:26 PM • 27 Comments •
July 27, 2007
Category: Wasting your time
I can't quite come up with a good reason to see it, considering seeing movies in C-ville is usually a desultory experience. Our local chains, Regal and Carmike, typically play 10-20 minutes of advertisements before the trailers. Being a Tivo...
Posted by MarkH at 10:49 AM • 21 Comments •
July 26, 2007
Category: Skepticism
I couldn't resist when I read this Guardian story about Oscar, the death predicting cat. When the two-year-old grey and white cat curls up next to an elderly resident, staff now realise, this means they are likely to die in...
Posted by MarkH at 12:59 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: General Discussion
Jesse McKinley reports in the Times: It was a good day for the Devil in San Francisco on Tuesday, as the Taxicab Commission voted to keep the Dark Lord's favorite number -- 666 -- affixed to an allegedly cursed cab....
Posted by Chris H at 12:39 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Medicine
The Washington post reports on new efforts by insurance companies to rate doctors performance and their policies that penalize doctors for performing poorly according to their metrics. After 26 years of a successful medical practice, Alan Berkenwald took for granted...
Posted by MarkH at 6:53 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: General Discussion
Seth Stevenson over at Slate describes all 12 types of ads in the world and urges us to resist them all: To me, the 12 formats serve...well as a weapon of defense for the consumer under assault from endless advertising...
Posted by Chris H at 12:59 AM • 5 Comments •
July 25, 2007
Category: General Discussion
Steven Novella at Neurologica has written a thoughtful essay on where the limits of academic freedom should lie in light of the firing of Ward Churchill based on allegations of plagiarism and research falsification. Of course, many believe that calling...
Posted by MarkH at 3:11 PM • 8 Comments •
