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"...a veritable expert on tawdry cosmetic procedures gone horribly awry..."--Kevin Beck

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 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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Infectious Disease Series

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Yellow fever: the American plague

The fever hit suddenly in the form of a piercing headache and painful sensitivity to light, like looking into a white sun. At that point, the patient could still hope that it was not yellow fever, maybe just a...

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Posted on February 8, 2008 11:05 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

"Twelve Diseases that Changed Our World"

Learning from history to avoid repeating it. Ideally.

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Posted on September 27, 2007 9:30 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Vaccine by Arthur Allen

Everything you've ever wanted to know about the history (and current status) of vaccination.

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Posted on September 17, 2007 10:30 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Danica McKellar's "Math Doesn't Suck"

Danica McKellar (aka Winnie Cooper of Wonder Years fame) channels her love of math into a guide for middle school girls. Does it suck?

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Posted on July 24, 2007 3:45 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

The outbreak that shaped the course of history

How a cholera outbreak 150 years ago still affects science, the building of cities, and our modern lives.

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Posted on June 12, 2007 11:00 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Did Hitler have syphilis?

How has syphilis influenced the course of history?

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Posted on June 4, 2007 9:00 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Wells' Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and ID, Chapter Seven: quote-mining, trivializing, and generally getting it wrong

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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Posted on September 20, 2006 10:00 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

100 science words

Just in time for college graduations comes a new book, "100 Science words every college graduate should know." It's an interesting browse. Others have mentioned it (and Chad even did a pretty nice breakdown of words by discipline); I just...

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Posted on May 31, 2006 3:00 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Viruses vs. Superbugs

On a recent episode of the drama House, the medical team finds that a patient improves from his illness when he's infected with a particular species of bacteria, Legionella pneumophila. Though mysterious at the time because the cause of...

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Posted on May 16, 2006 12:20 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Tom Bethell on AIDS--the breakdown

Chris has been excoriating Tom Bethell (author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science") over on The Intersection and elsewhere (see, for example, here, here, and several posts here). However, since he's not yet done a takedown on Bethell's...

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Posted on February 10, 2006 11:05 AM • 175 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

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