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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa. She is also the deputy director of the university's Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases. 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.
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Intelligent design:
The backstory on The Wedge
The Discovery Institute's Wedge document has been quite a boon to those seeking to show that their motivations are political and religious instead of scientific, though the DI has said it's not a big deal. Today, the Seattle Weekly has...
Posted on February 1, 2006 11:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Luskin still doesn't get it
I wrote up a critique of an article DI mouthpiece Casey Luskin wrote regarding avian influenza back in October. I don't know whether Luskin ever read my post; at the time, trackbacks to the DI site weren't working. But I'd...
Posted on January 30, 2006 11:30 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Catching up...
I meant to get online yesterday, but hubby had to work all day so it was just me and the kiddos--so we just played all day and I didn't bother to get to a computer. Anyhoo, I've missed a few...
Posted on January 29, 2006 04:30 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
For the Iowa folks...
Just a reminder about this upcoming event at Iowa State University: Why Intelligent Design Is Not Science Robert M. Hazen is the Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University, and a scientist at the Carnegie Institution of...
Posted on January 27, 2006 02:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Barbara Forrest on tonight's InfidelGuy
Check out tonight's InfidelGuy radio program (airs at 8PM EST) featuring Barbara Forrest. Dr. Barbara Forrest, author of "Creationism's Trojan Horse" reappears on the program to discuss her thoughts about design, evolution, and the recent court case heard in Dover,...
Posted on January 20, 2006 10:15 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
That big tent
Buridan of Buridan's ass has some discussion about Vedic creation in America (Short EvoWiki blurb on vedic creationism.), linking an article that claims Prominent I.D. theorists (Philip Johnson, Michael Behe) and some Catholic creationists have endorsed Vedic creationism. Afraid of...
Posted on January 19, 2006 12:20 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Signs you've been involved in the E/C "debate" too long
I know some of you out there do this. You've spent so many hours asking your creationist friends to define a "kind," or explaining why the "tornado in a junkyard" or "watchmaker" analogies are hopelessly flawed, that you're beginning...
Posted on January 13, 2006 07:22 AM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
