Margulis does it again
Category: AIDS/HIV
Margulis' transition to the Dark Side is complete.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:00 AM • 41 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. 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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Twittering in the classroom
Category: AIDS/HIV
Readers may be interested in participating in this, from Dave Wessner at Davidson College: Building on a project I piloted last fall, I will explore the potential role of Twitter more intentionally this fall in a course I teach on...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 5:13 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
HIV/AIDS PREVENTION; TIME FOR CHANGE
Category: AIDS/HIV
Student guest post by Francis Mawanda. HIV/AIDS is a major public health problem worldwide. To date, it is estimated that more than 60 million people have been infected with HIV and more than 25 million people have died as a...
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Christine Maggiore dies from pneumonia at age 52
Category: AIDS/HIV
A mother and her daughter, both lost to AIDS-related pneumonia. Both preventable.
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Huckabee supported isolation for HIV+ individuals
Category: AIDS/HIV
"Isolate carriers of the AIDS plague," said Huckabee in 1992. And he's still not distancing himself from these words.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 4:41 PM • 113 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mbeki: still in denial
Category: AIDS/HIV
An upcoming book on South African president Thabo Mbeki further illuminates his view on HIV and AIDS.
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BBC apologizes for promotion of misleading HIV denial film, "Guinea Pig Kids"
Category: AIDS/HIV
HIV denialists caught lying again. Shocking.
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Denialism: "they don't remember"
Category: AIDS/HIV
How short our collective memories can be...
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Not again...
Category: AIDS/HIV
Superstition trumps science once again.
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Loneliness causes AIDS, claims HIV "dissident" Michael Geiger
Category: wtf?
Yes, you heard it here, folks. Is it any wonder that HIV researchers are so outraged by these people?...
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