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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January 28, 2008
Category: Wasting your time
For the benefit of Teresa and her son, here's a description of a day in the life. This may not be all medstudents on the surgical rotation, but at the moment it's what I'm doing. I wake up around 4AM,...
Posted by MarkH at 7:38 AM • 8 Comments •
January 25, 2008
Category: Medicine
Surely no one can be pissed at me for pointing out that surgeons have some of the coolest tools, so I think I'll describe a few of them that I've seen used a great deal in general surgery. The one...
Posted by MarkH at 7:15 AM • 8 Comments •
January 24, 2008
Category: Wasting your time
Weed via vending machine. No I'm not kidding....
Posted by MarkH at 5:39 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Science
Here I thought I was the only one but apparently photic sneezing has received enough attention to get researchers interested in it. Apparently it's an ancient problem: Aristotle mused about why one sneezes more after looking at the sun in...
Posted by MarkH at 5:09 PM • 31 Comments •
January 21, 2008
Category: Wasting your time
Those of you on my snail mail list receive holiday cards from me every December, but this year was so hectic that I never got to one. So, today (really tomorrow), I'm mailing my MLK Day cards, which will include...
Posted by Chris H at 8:17 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Bob Sullivan reports at MSNBC on the early developments of a medical privacy score by Fair Issac, the same company that invented the credit score for lenders. This is somewhat scary, because the entire point of credit scores is to...
Posted by Chris H at 11:15 AM • 3 Comments •
January 18, 2008
Category: Wasting your time
I'm willing to bet that you weren't at Explo '72, the "Christian Woodstock," which received an encomium in today's Journal by John Turner: In 1972, Mike Huckabee -- still in high school -- followed the example of thousands of other...
Posted by Chris H at 4:12 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Wasting your time
The Wall Street Journal's Alexandra Alter reports on the newest reason not to spend your money and time at church: shunning has returned, meaning that years of devotion to your religious institution can be cut off if you do something...
Posted by Chris H at 1:43 PM • 14 Comments •
January 17, 2008
Category: Carnivals
This week's circle is at skeptical surfer's blog. Although I think Christian has made an error or two in his evaluation of the latest NHANES studies and what they say about obesity. For one, obesity has always been 30+ BMI,...
Posted by MarkH at 9:17 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Despite the best attempts of the New York Times Wellness Blog to get me fired, I'm still here and doing fine. Somehow a post about how impressed I was with surgery, the professionals that practice it, and how many of...
Posted by MarkH at 8:30 AM • 19 Comments •
