Tag: Harriet Hall

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

When “died suddenly” comes for a colleague and friend

Dr. Harriet Hall
Dr. Harriet Hall (with friend) at The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas in 2011.

Since Dr. Harriet Hall (a.k.a. The SkepDoc) died last week, antivaxxers have been blaming COVID-19 vaccines. Their vileness knows no limits.

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Announcements Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

R.I.P. SkepDoc

Harriet Hall, a.k.a. The SkepDoc
Harriet Hall, a.k.a. The SkepDoc, at CSICon in 2016.

Orac is greatly saddened to announce that Dr. Harriet Hall, a.k.a. The SkepDoc, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday night.

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Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

American Academy of Family Physicians embraces quackademic medicine

In a week and a half, Harriet Hall, Kimball Atwood, and I will be joining Eugenie C. Scott at CSICon to do a session entitled Teaching Pseudoscience in Medical (and Other) Schools. As you might imagine, we will be discussing the infiltration of pseudoscience into medical academia and medical training, a phenomenon I frequently refer […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

A chiropractor strikes back at the Institute for Science in Medicine…again

A couple of weeks ago, I had a bit of fun with a rather clueless chiropractor by the name of J.C. Smith (JCS), who decided to take a swipe at an organization with which I’m associated, namely the Institute for Science in Medicine (ISM). It was such an inept attack, filled with misinformation, pseudoscience, and […]