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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

Intelligent design/creationism:

Shocking. Truly.

The Expelled producers lied about canceling a movie showing in Tempe. Anyone surprised?...

Irony

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....

Guillermo Gonzalez tenure review goes to the Board of Regents today: updated

It's not certain there will be a decision immediately, though: From the Iowa State Daily: The Iowa Board of Regents will meet Thursday to discuss the tenure denial appeal of Guillermo Gonzalez, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa...

Discovery Institute bloviates. Again.

The DI spouts off in Iowa, alleging a conspiracy against Iowa State astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez.

The Discovery Institute's a-comin' to Iowa

The Discovery Institute again takes up the cause of Iowa State University astronomer and DI fellow Guillermo Gonzalez.

Where's the Discovery Institute when you need a defender of academic freedom?

Teaching Adam and Eve as mythology apparently cost a professor his job...

YearlyKos aftermath

Science + politics = yo' mamma.

Religion and Science symposium: Iowa, 2007

Can religion and science get along? Or at least, can scientists and religious people? We tackled the topic in an Iowa symposium on evolution and religion.

Be a scientific consultant for the Clergy Letter Project!

Lend your scientific expertise to promote evolution education.

While I'm out...

Catch up on some good reading elsewhere.

Why deny only one part of science? IDists branch out into AIDS denial

When pseudosciences collide...

Answers in Genesis doth protest too much

AiG volunteers confront gay man, love sodomites: We asked the lone gentleman behind the booth about the origins of the rainbow colors as a symbol for the homosexual movement. He gave us some history, apparently in San Francisco is where...

Creation museum---more posts from the gang

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....

Field trip to the Creation Museum

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...

Behe pwned again

Behe's "The Edge of Evolution" is officially on the shelves now, and already it's DOA.

Even Answers in Genesis thinks Michael Egnor's using the wrong argument

Always late to the party...

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