Verdict back in Australian HIV denial case
Category: AIDS/HIV
Decision comes back in HIV's version of Kitzmiller vs. Dover.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:35 AM • 229 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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. Additionally, she is the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and 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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April 27, 2007
Another reason to vaccinate
A bizarre case of Hepatitis B virus transmission.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:30 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2007
Happy ending
Category: Blogging news
If you've been reading Scienceblogs over the last 24 hours or so, you've probably seen reference to Shelley's legal issues regarding Wiley publishing and their accusation that her use of one panel of one figure of a scientific paper violated...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 12:55 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Well, isn't this interesting...
Category: AIDS/HIV
As pointed out by Dale in the comments over at Orac's post on Duesberg and aneuploidy, Duesberg and fellow HIV "dissident" David Rasnick are marketing a new cancer detection system, AnuCyte Cancer detection system, based upon his aneuploidy-basis-of-cancer ideas. And...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:00 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2007
Duesberg on cancer, deconstructed
Category: Cancer epidemiology
A few readers have asked me what I thought about HIV "dissident" Peter Duesberg's recent article in Scientific American, entitled Chromosomal Chaos and Cancer. Duesberg's cancer ideas--and his claim of novelty for researching how chromosomal abnormalities, rather than more simpler...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 2:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Would you give your baby someone else's breast milk?
Category: Infectious disease
"Wet nursing," or the practice of allowing a woman other than the mother of a child to provide milk to an infant, has been practiced for millenia. Two hundred years ago, wet nursing was common for a variety of...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:00 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2007
Pediatric Grand Rounds: the year in review
Category: Blog carnivals
Clark has a meta-carnival up, highlighting some of the most interesting posts from the first year of the Pediatric Grand Rounds Carnival. Talk about one-stop shopping!...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:35 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yet another study shows no link between abortion and breast cancer
Category: Cancer epidemiology
Surprise, surprise...science trumps ideology once again. What are the odds it will actually make a difference in policy?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:30 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 12, 2007
Influenza and masks, redux
Category: Infectious disease
Would the use of masks protect you in the event of an influenza pandemic? New research sheds some light on the question.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:30 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Vonnegut dies at 84
Category: Misc.
So it goes...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:30 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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