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Category: Science
Posted on: February 3, 2006 9:27 AM, by PZ Myers
Tara Smith is interviewed by DarkSyde on Daily Kos. It's good stuff, but be warned: epidemiologists and microbiologists are among the scariest kinds of people to have a conversation with.
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And why would that be? :)
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February 3, 2006 10:42 AM
Those darn plagues that you're always brewing up ;)
Posted by: Barry | February 3, 2006 11:30 AM
Oh, you know why. I think microbiologists like to make their students cry with all the horrors they can trot out.
The best I can do is make them puke in the aisles by showing them some grisly embryological deformities.
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February 3, 2006 11:32 AM
epidemiologists and microbiologists are among the scariest kinds of people to have a conversation with
Not all of us microbiologists work in pathogenesis and disease. You're so close minded PZ (that's a joke), there is a whole beautiful world of microbial diversity.
Are you a hypochondriac?
Posted by: evilchemistry | February 3, 2006 11:57 AM
Oh, you know why. I think microbiologists like to make their students cry with all the horrors they can trot out.
Well, survival of the fittest and all. If they can't handle looking at a bit of necrotizing flesh, maybe they should be a history major. :D
Posted by: Tara | February 3, 2006 12:05 PM
Tara - You did a great job with the interview!
Posted by: Torris | February 3, 2006 5:02 PM