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Dr. Harriet Hall, the The SkepDoc, was a retired Air Force flight surgeon, health columnist for Slate, writer and speaker on medicine, so-called complementary and alternative medicine, science, quackery, and critical thinking. Harriet was one of the most talented speakers I’ve come across in years: composed and relentless, with a sly sense of humour. She seems like the last person to crack wise when she starts talking in her quiet, steady way; but she slips in understated humour bombs at regular intervals until, slowly but surely, you realize she's actually the most hilarious doctor you've met in years.

I can’t state strongly enough that Harriet’s intelligence is the kind of intelligence that has made me a card-carrying skeptic: she’s just that much more persuasive and admirable than the “alternatives.”

Dr. Hall was also an editor and one of the five MD founders of the Science-Based Medicine blog; she writes the SkepDoc column in Skeptic magazine, and is contributing editor to Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer; she’s a medical advisor and author of articles on the QuackWatch; and she published Women Aren’t Supposed to Fly: The Memoirs of a Female Flight Surgeon.

~ Paul Ingraham, PainSci Publisher

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These seven articles on PainScience.com mention Dr. Harriet Hall as a source:

1. The Complete Guide to Low Back Pain
2. Review of The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook
3. The Chiropractic Controversies
4. Does Arnica Gel Work for Pain?
5. About Paul Ingraham
6. Therapy Babble
7. Does Spinal Manipulation Work?