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Category: General Epidemiology
Influenza, an editor rants about anti-vaxxers, and essay contest winners!
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 2:10 PM • 14 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. 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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Category: General Epidemiology
Influenza, an editor rants about anti-vaxxers, and essay contest winners!
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 2:10 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science education
Dr. Isis has a sweet announcement today. In conjunction with the American Physiological Society, she's funding an award for undergraduate researchers. She's donating her monthly Scienceblogs payment to the cause, and APS is providing matching funds, up to $500. Help...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 2:14 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Intelligent design/creationism
Iowa's first anti-evolution bill in a decade focuses on academic freedom.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:40 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science education
This started out in the comments to Janet's conundrum about what to do regarding her child's upcoming science fair: I'm very committed to the idea that a science fair project is the kind of thing a kid should control, from...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 5:00 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General Epidemiology
Students + swabs + pigs = teh fun.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:00 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science education
Filmmaker, scientist, and Scienceblogger Randy Olson releases a new documentary...sort of.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 5:00 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book & movie reviews
Looking for some good summer reading? Start here...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:30 PM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General biology
Infectious obesity: what's hype, and what's supported by the evidence?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:00 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
...my grad students. My spring semester course is on infectious causes of chronic disease, looking at the role various infections play in cancer, autoimmune disease, mental illness, and other chronic conditions. Since I've often discussed the importance of having scientists...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:45 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Help out a HS student/budding scientist!
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 7:30 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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