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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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June 29, 2007
Category: AIDS/HIV
I don't often provide a lot of background into HIV science or HIV denial, instead referencing previous posts I've made or websites such as AIDStruth.org or the NIAID fact sheet. For those of you who may be looking for more...
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Category: Cancer epidemiology
Do late nights increase a woman's risk of breast cancer?
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June 26, 2007
Category: General Epidemiology
'Tis the season for ripping out one's hair follicles in the name of aesthetics. Just be careful when you do so, as this case report graphically illustrates.
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Category: Misc.
Blogging will probably be light this week; while I was in Ohio a week ago for a happy event, this weekend was much the opposite, and I'll be out of town part of the week at a memorial service. In...
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June 25, 2007
Category: Intelligent design/creationism
I mentioned that a whole group of us went to the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Professor Steve Steve has his account now up at the Thumb, while Jason Rosenhouse has a two-parter at EvolutionBlog, and Wes Elsberry's account is here....
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June 22, 2007
Category: AIDS/HIV
While I was out last week, I completely missed this Science article all about HIV denial and the AidsTruth.org website, and features frequent commenter Richard Jeffreys: For 20 years, a small but vocal group of AIDS "dissenters" has attracted international...
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Category: Academia
Seems like this discussion is starting to wind down, but I did see a few additional posts that I haven't linked yet: Janet, Josh, Bora, doc-in-training, and Melinda Barton. As with the previous posts, lots of good ideas (from both...
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June 21, 2007
Category: Women and science
Sally Mason Named University Of Iowa's 20th President. Interesting. A female biologist, currently Provost at Purdue: During her tenure at Purdue, Mason invested both professionally and personally in diversity and innovative research and education. She raised funds for and...
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Category: Intelligent design/creationism
I mentioned I was back in Ohio last week. The occasion was the celebration of my grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary, but while I was in the area, a number of us from Panda's Thumb also met up south of Cincinnati...
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Category: Blog carnivals
Check out a very clever Tangled Bank over at Greg Laden's place, and the latest Skeptics' Circle (Solstice edition!) at Relatively Science....
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