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.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
And why would that be? :)
Those darn plagues that you’re always brewing up ;)
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.
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?
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
Tara – You did a great job with the interview!