More on the effects of tobacco poisoning
Category: Medicine
My recent post on tobacco poisoning focused on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the cause of about one-third of smoking related...
Posted by PalMD at 5:50 PM • 12 Comments •
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Mark Hoofnagle has a MD and PhD in physiology from the University of Virginia, and is now a general surgery resident. His interest in denialism concerns the use of denialist tactics to confuse public understanding of scientific knowledge.
Chris Hoofnagle is a recovering Washington, DC lawyer and information privacy law expert at UC-Berkeley Law School. Denialism became apparent to him while working on consumer protection laws in Washington. The Denialists' Deck of Cards is essentially a how-to guide for being an industry lobbyist.
PalMD is 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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July 31, 2008
Another reader question, and open thread
Category: Medicine
This is one of those topics I've always sort of avoided, and I'm still avoiding it for now. But that...
Posted by PalMD at 8:57 AM • 32 Comments •
Link love---Sceptics' Circle #92 at The Lay Scientist
Category: Skeptics Circle
It's up over at Martin's place. His blog came out of nowhere (don't they all) a few months back, and...
Posted by PalMD at 8:26 AM • 2 Comments •
July 30, 2008
How real science works
Category: Medicine
Every once in a while I like to do a piece on how real science works. The New England Journal...
Posted by PalMD at 7:03 PM • 5 Comments •
Rationality served up hot and fresh
Category: Skepticism
One of my favorite pet websites is RationalWiki, which is slowly transforming into it's 3.0 iteration. It originated as...
Posted by PalMD at 4:37 PM • 11 Comments •
July 29, 2008
The truth is out there...WAY out there
Category: Skepticism
Oh. My. F-ing. God. All the news that's fit to print??? I know some of my readers don't think much...
Posted by PalMD at 8:21 PM • 51 Comments •
I get questions...
Category: Medicine
I frequently get questions by email or by comment. If it's simple, I might fire off an answer. If it's...
Posted by PalMD at 12:16 PM • 14 Comments •
July 28, 2008
What should smokers be scared of?
Category: Medicine
This comes up every day. Everyone's afraid of the big "C", and they should be. Smoking increases a person's risk...
Posted by PalMD at 1:10 PM • 41 Comments •
A blog recommendation
Category: Global Warming Denialism
Everyone this morning should check out a new favorite website of mine the International Journal of Inactivism. Frank Bi has...
Posted by MarkH at 6:41 AM • 1 Comments •
July 27, 2008
Scene III, wherein we move on to more important things
Category: Medicine
What could be more important than a good old-fashioned flame war? I'll get to that in a moment, so please...
Posted by PalMD at 9:03 AM • 24 Comments •
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