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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 teaches privacy and computer crime law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. A former Washington lawyer, Chris wrote the The Denialists' Deck of Cards based upon his experiences working on consumer protection.
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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June 29, 2009
June 24, 2009
Making A Business of Going Out of Business
Category: Wasting your time
In Adam Sandler's 2008 masterpiece, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, the actor is offered a job at an electronics...
Posted by Chris H at 1:02 AM • 4 Comments •
June 23, 2009
What is Brain Wave Vibration?
Category: Altie Meds
Sounds like a more dangerous form of Scientology, according to the Chronicle's Scavenger Blog: ...Lee's yoga focuses on Brain...
Posted by Chris H at 9:00 PM • 22 Comments •
June 22, 2009
Is Government Health Care Unconstitutional?
Category: Politics
David Rivkin and Lee Casey consider this question in today's Journal, explaining that the Supreme Court's abortion jurisprudence limits the...
Posted by Chris H at 7:33 PM • 29 Comments •
Iran Likes DPI Too
Category: Privacy
Christoper Rhoads and Loretta Chao report in today's Journal: ...the Iranian government appears to be engaging in a practice often...
Posted by Chris H at 11:55 AM • 6 Comments •
June 11, 2009
It Begins!
Category: Politics
Obama's honeymoon is over, and so is my intermittent blogging, because business groups have finally started their machines! Christopher Conkey...
Posted by Chris H at 2:14 PM • 13 Comments •
Holocaust Museum Shooter - Anti-semite and conspiracy theorist
Category: Holocaust Denial
Orac has already pointed out the disgusting hate behind the Holocaust museum shooter and his holocaust denial. Others around the...
Posted by MarkH at 9:00 AM • 86 Comments •
June 10, 2009
June 8, 2009
The psychology of crankery
Category: Cranks
Our recent discussions of HIV/AIDS denial and in particular Seth Kalichman's book "Denying AIDS" has got me thinking more about the psychology of those who are susceptible to pseudoscientific belief. It's an interesting topic, and Kalichman studies it briefly in his book mentioning the "suspicious minds":
Posted by MarkH at 6:24 AM • 65 Comments •
June 5, 2009
Changing medical school requirements for scientific medicine
Category: Medical Education
Science has an editorial today discussing a topic near and dear to me, what medical schools should require from undergraduates before admission. Since I was a bit non-traditional as an undergraduate premed (I was a physics major), I am happy to see that they've ignored calls to overload undergraduate education with a bunch of pre-professional courses that prevent people from being anything but biology majors.
Posted by MarkH at 11:29 AM • 34 Comments •
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