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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December 31, 2007
Category: Politics
Glenn Simpson reports in today's Journal on how lenders lobbied against state anti-predatory lending laws, with the result of worsening the subprime crisis. While the federal government was asleep at the wheel, or worse, worshiping the "miracle of instant credit,"...
Posted by Chris H at 7:18 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Wasting your time
All, I'm sorry for being AWOL on the Denialism Blog. I've just returned from a longish trip with Dr. Girlfriend to Guatemala, where we visited Guatemala City, Lake Atitlan, Antigua, and Tikal. I'll blog soon with some of the outrageous...
Posted by Chris H at 12:38 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Racism
I see that I'm in good company in my curiosity about why Ron Paul enjoys so much crank magnetism. And his crank magnetism and appeal to racist groups can't be denied. Here for instance, is Ron Paul posing with Don...
Posted by MarkH at 11:44 AM • 18 Comments •
Category: Politics
Bill Kristol will soon have a weekly column in the New York Times. I have to admit, I'm really excited. You see, Bill Kristol, or as we like to call him Krissandra has a nearly supernatural ability to be wrong....
Posted by MarkH at 9:51 AM • 4 Comments •
December 26, 2007
Category: Holocaust Denial
I'm so confused. I've got Ed telling us that the neo-nazis are claiming them as one of his own, which I would usually dismiss since they're usually just lying about everything. But then I see Ron Paul supporters blame a...
Posted by MarkH at 11:36 AM • 40 Comments •
Category: Obesity
Why the Washington Post decided to devote space to libertarian crankery from the Pacific Research Institute, I'll never know, but today's op-ed from Sally Pipes on the evils of governmental interference in diet is a bit much. The way I...
Posted by MarkH at 8:36 AM • 17 Comments •
December 25, 2007
Category: General Discussion
I had an interesting X-mas week, hanging out with the parents, seeing patients at my mom's general practice and a very different set of patients in clinical studies at the NIH with my father. That, studying, and fulfilling the role...
Posted by MarkH at 10:47 PM • 6 Comments •
December 22, 2007
Category: General Discussion
Dan Solove brings up some privacy issues with using sitemeter on blogs: But Site Meter also lists the IP address of each visitor, something that the public really doesn't need to see. An IP address is a unique numerical identifier...
Posted by MarkH at 2:47 PM • 8 Comments •
December 21, 2007
Category: Global Warming Denialism
I want to point out two things about the anti-consensus report the anti-AGW denialists are spreading as if it is an actual scientific document. For one, if the first place I read about it is when it's promoted on Uncommon...
Posted by MarkH at 8:45 AM • 16 Comments •
Category: Obesity
Orac alerted me, based on my recent obesity writings, of a new crank obesity attack on science. This latest is in the form of a rebuttal to Morgan Spurlock's excellent film Supersize me. Comedian Tom Naughton, who has all the...
Posted by MarkH at 8:11 AM • 10 Comments •
