Hello to the Hoofnagles!

The all-encompassing, all-devouring, Science Blogs combine has assimilated another member. Be sure to say hello to the brothers Hoofnagle (if that's really their name) who write the denialism blog. Only a few posts so far but all of them worth reading.

And I notice one of the Hoofnagles is a graduate student at the University of Virginia. Always nice to have a Virginia academic on the team!

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