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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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Skepticism:
Did Yersinia pestis really cause Black Plague? Part 2: Examination of the criticisms
I discussed yesterday an "alternative" hypothesis for causation of the Black Death and subsequent plague outbreaks. How robust are those claims?Posted on January 17, 2008 8:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Denialism: "they don't remember"
How short our collective memories can be...Posted on October 10, 2007 3:35 PM • 1095 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Belief doesn't protect you from being maimed by swords
Despite HIV deniers' claims to the contrary, one can't just disbelieve in something and be safe from harm, as graphically shown here...Posted on October 1, 2007 5:50 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Not again...
Superstition trumps science once again.Posted on September 27, 2007 3:17 PM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Vaccine by Arthur Allen
Everything you've ever wanted to know about the history (and current status) of vaccination.Posted on September 17, 2007 10:30 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Deck is stacked against "mythbusters"
Like we didn't already know this was difficult to do--new studies shed some light on why that is, and how to correct misinformation more effectively.Posted on September 6, 2007 5:05 PM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
HIV denial article in PLoS Medicine
Since there are already several threads on HIV running, and I'm loathe to have another, I'll post this up for consumption but leave the comments for one of the other threads. While I was in New York over the weekend,...Posted on August 21, 2007 5:00 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
HIV denial update #2: "alternative" treatments
Bet you didn't know the secret to good health could be found in your pants...Posted on August 16, 2007 9:00 AM • 491 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Campaign against HIV/AIDS denial featured in Science
While I was out last week, I completely missed this Science article all about HIV denial and the AidsTruth.org website, and features frequent commenter Richard Jeffreys: For 20 years, a small but vocal group of AIDS "dissenters" has attracted international...Posted on June 22, 2007 10:00 AM • 154 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...Posted on June 21, 2007 3:10 PM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
David Crowe takes it way beyond HIV denial
HIV "dissident" David Crowe is like the gift that just keeps on giving. Last year, I mentioned a paper he'd written in the journal Medical Hypotheses, suggesting that influenza serotype H5N1 doesn't exist. Well, it just keeps getting better. Now,...Posted on June 11, 2007 9:30 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Behe pwned again
Behe's "The Edge of Evolution" is officially on the shelves now, and already it's DOA.Posted on June 5, 2007 7:00 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Reporting on the Creation Museum...it all makes sense now
As a native Ohioan and longtime creationist watcher, of course I'm morbidly fascinated with (and dismayed by) the opening of the new Creation Museum just outside of Cincinnati. I'm not going to give a full response to its ridiculous "science;"...Posted on May 30, 2007 11:15 AM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Up is down, black is white...
It must be nice sometimes to live in alternative reality, like the science denial folks...Posted on May 29, 2007 2:00 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yet another study shows no link between abortion and breast cancer
Surprise, surprise...science trumps ideology once again. What are the odds it will actually make a difference in policy?Posted on April 24, 2007 8:30 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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