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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November 30, 2007
Category: Evolution Denialism
Let's talk about Uncommon Descent for a moment. One of the recurring complaints we've been hearing from the evolution denialists there is this refrain that whenever a evolutionary explanation for a result gets reevaluated, it's a sign that we "Darwinists"...
Posted by MarkH at 6:07 AM • 15 Comments •
November 27, 2007
Category: Altie Meds
Usually Deepak Chopra's nonsensical writings at the Huffington post about mind-body healing are so vague and bland I don't bother addressing them. The mind controls the body, the mind is powerful, blah blah blah, who cares right? Well, today Chopra...
Posted by MarkH at 9:00 AM • 23 Comments •
Category: Holocaust Denial
I actually had thought the debate with holocaust denier David Irving and racist Nick Griffin at the Oxford Union had been canceled, but via Deborah Lipstadt's blog it turns out they made the mistake of giving the man an outlet...
Posted by MarkH at 8:20 AM • 56 Comments •
Category: Steven Milloy
It's funny, but the crank use of the recent reevaluation of global AIDS statistics by the UN reminds me of a sign you see driving towards Charlottesville from DC. It's faded wooden thingy that says, "Get the US out of...
Posted by MarkH at 7:00 AM • 2 Comments •
November 24, 2007
Category: General Discussion
Can I tell you how boring I find the fine-tuning argument? Paul Davies is the latest to use it and in the NYT no less. Davies' argument depends on whether you believe his initial assertion that science fundamentally rests on...
Posted by MarkH at 5:55 AM • 38 Comments •
November 23, 2007
Category: Wasting your time
This may be obvious to the smart readers of Scienceblogs, but let me state this just for the purpose of explaining the waste that is gift cards. You might think giving cash as a gift is tacky, but the nice...
Posted by Chris H at 6:24 AM • 10 Comments •
November 22, 2007
Category: Skepticism
I watched the season finale of phenomenon - the show in which mentalists compete to see who is the next "phenomenon" - and Criss Angel did skeptics everywhere proud with the contents of the envelope....
Posted by MarkH at 6:15 AM • 13 Comments •
November 21, 2007
Category: Carnivals
Med Journal Watch has it up. I must admit some sadness that yet again one of my skeptic colleagues has fallen for Sandy Szwarc's nonsense though. People, figure this out, she's not a real skeptic. They don't make blanket statements...
Posted by MarkH at 1:55 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Cranks
Keeping quiet for the last few days has given me the advantage of seeing patterns in my firefox tabs. I see news stories in my feed that I'm interested in, open them in tabs and figure maybe I can blog...
Posted by MarkH at 8:51 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Stem Cells
You guys might have noticed I've been quiet lately, that's because I've scheduled a thesis defense and am under deadlines. However, I couldn't let these two (1) papers(2) on reprogramming of human adult cells into stem cells slip by without...
Posted by MarkH at 6:01 AM • 18 Comments •
