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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.

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Christian Libertarian Wefare Queen

Category: Wasting your time
Posted on: April 1, 2010 12:12 AM, by Chris H

Shamelessly stolen from Gawker: Brick Fatwa Libertarian Also Gets Fat Government Checks. For what? A preventable disease! Oh, what ever happened to personal responsibility?

Illustration: A typical American male libertarian in its natural habitat

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Well it's the Fat American Naturist Society. It's the only fans this guy has got!

Posted by: Martin | June 13, 2010 3:00 PM

So, “Chris H”, you recently sat at your computer and without any demonstrated sense of irony as you were posting it, you posted to your blog a picture of a man sitting at his computer, with the implication that he is posting to his blog.

This came with the further implication that such activity is a negative thing worthy of scorn.

Still without a sense of irony as you typing your caption, you openly editorialized that the morbidly fat slob in the picture is the physical image of "a typical American male libertarian in his natural habitat", which is implied to be a habitat of blogging, which of course is YOUR habitat.

You implied that he is Mike Vanderboegh, and you further implied that Vanderboegh’s demonstrated lack of principled thinking and grossly premature incitement of violence is a libertarian’s intellectual image, and that his economic hypocrisy is the moral image.

All your editorializing, missed irony and scornful implications come not in the name of satire, but in the name of SCIENCE, right here on “scienceblogs".

I’m sort of a “libertarian” myself; specifically I’m a Randian Objectivist. (We’re the ones who will tell you that Vanderboegh is what you get when you try to have freedom without a philosophy of reason behind it.) I have a very early-stage project which will need a privacy consultant and/or attorney. I saw you on TV. I just came here to learn more about you.

And that’ll be enough. Next...!

Posted by: John X Smith | July 26, 2010 10:03 PM

And even if not intended maliciously, any feature like this could be exploited
in the future by malicious software like cell phone viruses. Or Apple, AT&T, or
anyone working with them could access it remotely without the user's knowledge.

Posted by: Kamerali Sohbet | August 10, 2010 2:00 AM