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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September 29, 2007
Category: Wasting your time
Ah, the joys of reading the relatively new weekend edition of the Journal...There's always news you can really use. For instance, if you happen to be in Atlanta and are hungry, the Journal will tell you exactly where you should...
Posted by Chris H at 5:58 PM • 9 Comments •
September 28, 2007
Category: Science
National Geographic brings us the "best science images of 2007" which includes this amazing CT reconstruction of the nose and sinuses. Science magazine has the full set, but is behind a paywall. Via BoingBoing and Neurophilosophy...
Posted by MarkH at 4:03 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Global Warming Denialism
Tim Lambert has coverage of the latest in the denialist attempt to discredit global warming science - the smearing of scientist James Hansen. Using the bogey-man of George Soros, they try to suggest that Hansen has been funneled hundreds of...
Posted by MarkH at 12:09 PM • 4 Comments •
September 27, 2007
Category: Carnivals
This week it's our friend Factition at Conspiracy Factory. However, he makes the poor decision to let the world know about our contacts with the Illuminati as part of our anti-conspiracy disinformation campaign. Traitor!...
Posted by MarkH at 2:01 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: HIV/AIDS denialism
This is seriously disturbing. Archbishop Francisco Chimoio, who is head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique, is telling people that condoms are laced with HIV and HAART therapy is designed to finish you off. This is in a country with...
Posted by MarkH at 4:45 AM • 13 Comments •
September 26, 2007
Category: Wasting your time
Here's what I'm reading this morning. An Orangutan stole a womans pants in Malaysia. That's got to be embarrassing, but at the very least, you'd have a story to tell people for the rest of your life that is sure...
Posted by MarkH at 8:31 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Evolution Denialism
I've largely been ignoring their stupid lately. But the sheer idiocy of a ID "mathematician" Granville Sewell takes the cake for this truly idiotic straw-man argument. It starts with an interesting question though:...
Posted by MarkH at 7:39 AM • 32 Comments •
Category: Animal Rights Extremism
I have trouble believing this, but animal rights extremists have apparently stolen a kindergarten bunny. Students at the Community Building Children's Center arrived at their downtown preschool Monday morning to discover that their pet rabbit Sugar Bunny had been kidnapped...
Posted by MarkH at 7:29 AM • 21 Comments •
September 25, 2007
Category: Altie Meds
The ads work, that is. HeadOn, that homeopathic (and therefore completely ineffective) head rub for head pain isn't effective. But it's still selling, because advertising and propaganda often trumps evidence! Mya Frazier of AdAge reports: Those rapid-fire "HeadOn, apply directly...
Posted by Chris H at 12:01 PM • 9 Comments •
September 24, 2007
Category: OTA
Chris Mooney has been nice enough to help promote our effort, and points us to some more helpful information about the Office of Technology Assessment. Now would be a good time to go over what the OTA did, how it...
Posted by MarkH at 5:19 AM • 4 Comments •
