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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. She also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.
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September 29, 2006
Category: General Epidemiology
Nina Plank, the author of the NY Times article I commented on in this post, stopped by to comment. Rather than just having this lost in the comments to a week-old post, I wanted to take a moment and quickly...
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Category: Intelligent design/creationism
Via Dean and Science, Just Science comes this story about a new group trying to get ID into class in the UK: Parents are being encouraged to challenge their children's science teachers over what they are explaining as the origins...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 10:10 AM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 28, 2006
Category: Blog carnivals
While I've been out, missed highlighting a few carnivals: Grand Rounds 3.1 Tangled Bank #63 Skeptics' Circle #44...
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September 26, 2006
Category: General Epidemiology
I was travelling over the weekend and I'm incredibly busy up through Wednesday, so new material from me will have to wait until later in the week. In the meantime, I'll point you to a stellar post I wanted to...
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September 22, 2006
Category: AIDS/HIV
The more I read about this, the worse it gets. In addition to the links I mentioned yesterday, Laurie Garrett mentioned she's been covering this for years. One example is this piece from this past June. One of the newly...
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September 21, 2006
Category: Ecology
That's certainly the claim in a new New York Times editorial (via The Frontal Cortex). The author, Nina Planck (author of Real Foods: What to Eat and Why), claims that it's as easy as just feeding cattle grass, and...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:15 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: AIDS/HIV
I write a lot here about science denial, and it's been pointed out previously that denying that HIV causes AIDS, for instance, is deadly quackery. Now, via Nature write and blogger Declan Butler and Nature magazine comes news of another...
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September 20, 2006
Category: General biology
The seventh chapter of Wells' book could be summed up in a single sentence: "biology doesn't need no steeekin' evolution!" Wells argues that, because medicine and agriculture were already doing just fine prior to Darwin's publication of Origin, clearly...
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Category: Politics
David over at Orcinus has an excellent post reminding about the anniversary of the that passed largely without mention, and its stark contrast to the anniversary of 9/11. ...today also marks the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that followed...
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Category: Misc.
Everyone's favorite sexy geek is 29 today. Stop on over and drop some birthday wishes for the youngin'....
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