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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February 28, 2008
Category: Carnivals
At Conspiracy Factory. In particular I like Skepchik's take on a pretty horrifically sexist Oprah poll which seems to present the only options for women in a stressful situation are to cry now or cry later or act like a...
Posted by MarkH at 2:01 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Animal Rights Extremism
This time it appears to be a physical assault and an attempt to enter a home of a researcher that works with mice. The researcher described the attack in which people wearing masks attempted to break into her house during...
Posted by MarkH at 7:11 AM • 18 Comments •
February 27, 2008
Category: Wasting your time
I've been AWOL from Denialism Blog because one of my UC-Berkeley projects has become all-consuming. I'm interested in sparking a market for identity theft protection. A real one. One where consumers can actually make choices among banks based on their...
Posted by Chris H at 6:00 AM • 10 Comments •
February 26, 2008
Category: Medicine
I've almost come to the end of the core 8 weeks of my surgery rotation (4 more weeks follow in electives) and am currently working on the trauma service for another couple days before taking exams. I don't have a...
Posted by MarkH at 6:44 AM • 8 Comments •
February 25, 2008
Category: Science
I must say I've loved much of the writing at the new blog Science-Based Medicine. These guys are fighting the good fight and presenting very sophisticated aspects of evaluating the medical literature in a very accessible way. In particular I'd...
Posted by MarkH at 6:56 AM • 4 Comments •
February 18, 2008
Category: General Discussion
One of the few advantages of having no time is that when I do get around to sorting through my RSS feeds of various denialists is that I end up seeing patterns I didn't observe as much when I tracked...
Posted by MarkH at 7:05 AM • 6 Comments •
February 17, 2008
Category: Carnivals
I'm late to the party sorry, but this week's circle is up at Bug Girl's Blog. Check it out. She's one of my favorite bloggers and she's done a great job with her Valentine's day edition. In particular I will...
Posted by MarkH at 9:14 AM • 0 Comments •
February 14, 2008
The Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe have just released their annual Most Trusted Companies for Privacy report. As part of this report, the groups asked consumers about the factors--positive and negative--that shaped their perceptions of companies' privacy practices. (Full disclosure: I...
Posted by Chris H at 2:23 PM • 6 Comments •
February 12, 2008
Category: Wasting your time
I've spent the last few months working with an excellent journalist on the Anonymity Experiment, which will appear in this month's Popular Science magazine. In it, Catherine Price attempts to live a normal life without revealing personal data: ...when this...
Posted by Chris H at 3:10 PM • 13 Comments •
February 11, 2008
Category: Animal Rights Extremism
I'm very upset to see that following up on previous threats, animal rights terrorists have set fire to a scientist's house. I've been saying for a while that the real threat towards biological science isn't the evolution denialists and other...
Posted by MarkH at 7:17 AM • 92 Comments •
