Harriet Hall MD Bio Wiki Age Height Husband Skeptic Salary And Net Worth
Harriet Hall (Harriet A. Hall) is an American former family physician, U.S. Air Force flight surgeon, and skeptic. Currently, she works as a writer for Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer. Harriet writes about alternative medicine and quackery under the name The SkepDoc.
She was honored with an award on August 21, 2010, from The IIG during its 10th Anniversary Gala. The award was meant to recognize her contributions in the skeptical field. Harriet was a speaker at the 6th World Skeptic Congress in Berlin, “Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Fairy Tale Science and Placebo Medicine”. She published a YouTube lecture series titled “Science-Based Medicine” in 2015. The lecture was commissioned by the James Randi Educational Foundation.
Currently, Science-Based Medicine is presented as a course regarding the differences between Science-Based and Evidence-Based Medicine, Naturopathy and Herbal Medicine, Miscellaneous “Alternatives”, Science-Based Medicine in the Media and Politics, Pitfalls in Research, Energy Medicine, Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Chiropractic, and CAM, The course contains ten lectures. Harriet has published a regular column in Skeptical Inquirer titled “Reality Is the Best Medicine” since 2018.
She was born on July 2, 1945, in theUnited States of America. Harriet is77 years old.
She is a woman of average stature. Harriet stands at a height of5 ft 6 in ( Approx 1.68m).
She was born to her parents in the United States of America. Despite being a public figure, Harriet has maintained a low profile about her family.
She is married to her husbandKirkwho also retired from the Air Force. The couple has two grown daughters. They live in Puyallup, Washington.
She was a “passive skeptic” for quite some time, she only read the literature and attended different meetings. Then, Harriet met Wallace Sampson at the Skeptic’s Toolbox workshop in Oregon. Wallace convinced her to write an article for the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. The article was about testing so-called “Vitamin O” products that Harriet had seen advertised in the mail.
She started writing articles for Skeptical Inquirer. After speaking to Michael Shermer at The Amazing Meeting about the book The God Code, Michael encouraged her to write a review of it for Skeptic magazine. Harriet wrote other articles for that publication. She has had a regular column in it titled The SkepDoc since late 2006. The SkepDoc is also the name of her website.
Before the Toolbox, Harriet had not done any writing. One thing led to another and now she is on the faculty of the Skeptic’s Toolbox.” Harriet has spoken at The Amazing Meeting 7, the Science-Based Medicine Conference, among other venues in 2009. Podcasts such as The Reality Check, Skepticality, and The Skeptic Zone have interviewed her.
Harriet published Women Aren’t Supposed to Fly: The Memoirs of a Female Flight Surgeon in 2008. It is an autobiography that focuses on her experiences as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force where she retired as a full colonel. She named the book after an incident after her first solo flight when an airport official told her, “Didn’t anybody ever tell you women aren’t supposed to fly?”
Harriet was a minority in several respects as a female physician, Air Force officer, pilot, and flight surgeon. She encountered prejudice. Harriet had a regular 250-word column in O, starting in the January 2010 issue. The Oprah Magazine debunked common health myths. The relationship between her and the magazine was rocky, and the column ended in the June 2010 issue. Since then, Harriet has talked about this experience stating that the editor who hired her was replaced by a less sympathetic one.
Harriet has added that they restricted her to a measly 200 words and wanted to tell her exactly what to write about and what to say. Harriet couldn’t even recognize the final edited version as her writing. Currently, Harriet is on the board and a founding member of the recently (2009) formed “Institute for Science in Medicine”. She was elected a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2010.
She serves as a writer for Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer. Harriet earns an average salary of$104,785 per year.
She has a whopping net worth of $5 to$10 million.
Harriet is77 years old.She was born on July 2, 1945, in theUnited States of America.
Harriet is an American former family physician, U.S. Air Force flight surgeon, and skeptic. Currently, she serves as a writer for Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer.
She is married to her husbandKirk. They live in Puyallup, Washington with their two daughters.
