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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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March 25, 2008
Category: Ecology
1980 marked a milestone in infectious disease epidemiology: the World Health Organization declared the smallpox virus eradicated in the wild. However, while smallpox currently exists only in frozen stocks, poxviruses as a class certainly haven't disappeared. A related virus, monkeypox,...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:35 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2008
Category: General biology
In this NY Times article on parents who are opting out of vaccinations, one mom notes her objections: "I refuse to sacrifice my children for the greater good," said Sybil Carlson, whose 6-year-old son goes to school with several of...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 6:40 PM • 210 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ecology
Google.com + infectious disease research = delicious.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:30 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 21, 2008
Category: General Epidemiology
Working together to improve health for the whole planet.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:00 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Intelligent design/creationism
PZ got kicked out of a screening of Expelled, the latest ID propaganda movie--in which he's featured. Someone else who's in it? Richard Dawkins. Guess who PZ's guest was--a guest who was let into the screening? Yep. Dawkins. The irony....
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 12:05 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2008
Category: Misc.
It's been a busy 3 days here in Atlanta. My talk Tuesday was well-received, I have lots of new ideas for future projects, and I'll have posts on the conference itself starting, hopefully, this afternoon (last night was family time,...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 12:30 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 16, 2008
Category: Housekeeping
Technically, I was supposed to be in Atlanta a good 3 hours ago, but our plane's broken down here in Moline (where I've been for 7 hours and counting now). For the next few days, I'll be at the International...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 6:35 PM • 90 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 13, 2008
Category: Academia
Via Ed, if you puked on VoxDay's shoes after his column earlier this week in WorldNetDaily: But this is not to say there is not a genuine threat to all three aspects of science today. Unsurprisingly, it comes from the...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 12:45 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 11, 2008
Category: Infectious disease
Global health funding has increased dramatically over the last 20 years--but are we using the funding the right way?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:15 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 7, 2008
Category: Cancer epidemiology
Hepatitis viruses are making news around the world; find a roundup of the various types (and their basic epidemiology) here.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 10:10 AM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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