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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March 31, 2008
Category: Medicine
A reader, who happens to write one of the best-named blogs on teh tubes, pointed me toward an article I never would have seen. This parallels a news story we had here in the States late last year. So, since...
Posted by PalMD at 5:03 PM • 28 Comments •
Category: Science
...I really couldn't resist sharing some fun links. I guess you'd call it blogrolling. First, someone got a hold of the über-seekrit Expelled:Leader's Guide, and started deconstructing it. Next, Steve Novella once again eviscerates a wacky water-woo cult leader at...
Posted by PalMD at 3:20 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Medicine
I love this story because it shows how evidence-based medicine works, even in the face of corporate greed. A while back I told you about a cholesterol study with negative results; that is, it failed to show a drug to...
Posted by PalMD at 11:41 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: HIV/AIDS denialism
The Lancet (Vol 371:9615, March 8, 2008 p. 784) notes that the government of Malawi is working on legislation to prevent traditional and religious healers from deceiving people about AIDS. According to Mary Shaba, a Malawi health official, "when it...
Posted by PalMD at 10:42 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
In case you haven't heard, cooking food is bad--at least according to the raw food movement. This movement has developed over the last 5-10 years, and is still fairly fringe, but fad diets, restaurants, stores, and websites devoted to raw...
Posted by PalMD at 9:41 AM • 30 Comments •
Category: Medicine
The Independent has yet another hysterical article about the potential link between cell phones and brain cancer. And I've been asked, what are we seeing here? Is this the early reporting of a potential public health threat? Or is it...
Posted by MarkH at 7:38 AM • 17 Comments •
Category: Denialism
To continue to explain how terribly misguided Mooney and Nisbet are about ignoring denialist campaigns I think it's time to go over the history of one of the most effective denialist campaigns ever. That is the concerted effort by the...
Posted by MarkH at 6:15 AM • 14 Comments •
March 30, 2008
Category: Medicine
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are frighteningly common, as highlighted by a study released by the CDC earlier this month. The U.S. is in a unique position: few countries have the resources we do to prevent and treat STDs, and few...
Posted by PalMD at 8:46 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Anti-Vax Denialism
What if we had a vaccine against cancer? Or even against some cancers? Wouldn't this be a huge news story, with people everywhere clamoring for the shot? Maybe... Or maybe, some people could find a way to turn that smile...
Posted by PalMD at 8:43 AM • 50 Comments •
March 29, 2008
Category: Medical Musings
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a very common problem, especially in women. The link provided offers some very good information, but briefly, women's urethrae (the tube the urine comes out of), are closer to the rectum than those of men...
Posted by PalMD at 3:35 PM • 10 Comments •
