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Aetiology

Discussing causes, origins, evolution, and implications of disease and other phenomena.

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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.

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

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Infectious Disease Series

Skepticism:

Swine flu and snake oil

Category: General Epidemiology

Never one to miss an opportunity--flush your colon waste and adjust your spine to cure swine flu!

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Vaccines and autism--can we stick a fork in it now, please?

Category: Infectious disease

It gets worse and worse--now it's not only bad studies, but fabricated data. Meanwhile, unvaccinated kids continue to die from measles.

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Jenny McCarthy strikes again

Category: Infectious disease

Just in time for the introduction of Autism's False Prophets by Dr. Paul Offit (the current choice for Scienceblogs' book club), Jenny McCarthy comes out with yet another interview decrying vaccines, blaming autism on the greed of pharmaceutical companies, and...

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Elsewhere...

Category: General Epidemiology

Busy here; good stuff other places to check out.

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Did Yersinia pestis really cause Black Plague? Part 2: Examination of the criticisms

Category: General biology

I discussed yesterday an "alternative" hypothesis for causation of the Black Death and subsequent plague outbreaks. How robust are those claims?

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Denialism: "they don't remember"

Category: AIDS/HIV

How short our collective memories can be...

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Belief doesn't protect you from being maimed by swords

Category: Skepticism

Despite HIV deniers' claims to the contrary, one can't just disbelieve in something and be safe from harm, as graphically shown here...

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Not again...

Category: AIDS/HIV

Superstition trumps science once again.

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Vaccine by Arthur Allen

Category: General biology

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

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Deck is stacked against "mythbusters"

Category: Skepticism

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.

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