# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harriet-a-hall
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:45:52.100Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harriet-a-hall"
name: "Harriet A. Hall"
slug: "harriet-a-hall"
description: "Harriet A. Hall was an American family physician, U.S. Air Force flight surgeon, author, science communicator, and skeptic. She wrote about alternative medicine and quackery for the magazines Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer and was a regular contributor and founding editor of Science-Based Medicine. She wrote under her own name or used the pseudonym \"The SkepDoc\". After retiring as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, Hall was a frequent speaker at science and skepticism related conventions in the US and around the world."
tagline: "American medical doctor and skeptic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harriet_Hall_Alaska_Cruise.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1945-07-02"
deathDate: "2023-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.skepdoc.info/"
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    title: "Harriet Hall"
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    title: "Harriet A. Hall"
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    title: "Harriet A. Hall"
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    title: "Harriet Hall"
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    title: "Harriet Hall"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump