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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October 31, 2007
Category: Wasting your time
Denialism blog has failed you. We totally missed Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. Would anyone like to share how they recognized this event?...
Posted by Chris H at 3:38 PM • 45 Comments •
October 30, 2007
Category: Politics
Another sign the monkeys are running the zoo is the news that the head of consumer protection doesn't want consumer protection. The top official for consumer product safety has asked Congress in recent days to reject legislation that would strengthen...
Posted by MarkH at 4:03 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Famliy "values" organizations
It's already got the fundamentalists up in arms. Apparently, one of them managed to read something outside the accepted cannon of Christ-like books and now they're all bothered about the December 7th release (see trailer) of the first installment of...
Posted by MarkH at 6:42 AM • 26 Comments •
October 29, 2007
Category: Sandy Szwarc
How do doctors decide what is healthy and unhealthy? Do they arbitrarily decide on risk factors to line their pockets - creating false epidemics as Sandy Szwarc at Junkfood Science suggests? Or, is there actually a science, called epidemiology, that...
Posted by MarkH at 8:53 AM • 26 Comments •
Category: General Discussion
BPR3, or Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting has announced the release of their new icons. For those of you who don't know what this is all about, it's pretty simple. When we're not making up lolcats, and being all super-serious,...
Posted by MarkH at 7:22 AM • 0 Comments •
October 27, 2007
Category: Skepticism
A halloween prank from CNN maybe?...
Posted by MarkH at 9:45 AM • 9 Comments •
October 26, 2007
Category: Wasting your time
In today's Wall Street Journal, Jennifer Levitz and Kelly Greene report on lead generation firms (also known as list brokers), companies that sell databases of consumer information to businesses for marketing purposes: Older Americans around the country are getting duped...
Posted by Chris H at 3:38 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Politics
It's the big news, at a FEMA press briefing FEMA employees threw softball questions to give the appearance of answering questions from the press. . No one asked about trailers with formaldehyde for those made homeless by the fires. And...
Posted by MarkH at 2:48 PM • 32 Comments •
Category: Wasting your time
In honor of Phenomenon and the fun of talking about magic tricks check out Ramana, aka Wouter Bijdendijk who has been doing the levitation trick shown below, only he's doing it in front of the Whitehouse. Here he is doing...
Posted by MarkH at 10:37 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: 9/11 Conspiracies
I think I'm going to have to add a new behavior to the crank HOWTO based on the latest campaign by troofers to get attention by disruption. First it was Bill Maher: Who I think handled it right. Now Bill...
Posted by MarkH at 10:24 AM • 21 Comments •
