Following Aetiology...

By tsmith on April 26, 2009.

While I'm at it, I might as well add that I now have a twitter account, for those of you who'd like to follow along there: http://twitter.com/aetiology

Or, if RSS feeds are more your thing, Aetiology's is http://feeds.feedburner.com/scienceblogs/aetiology

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming...

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Thanks a ton for your work, Tara. I was a regular reader of your blog a while back, then lost track for some reason. Now you've pretty much become an indispensable daily source for me. The Twitter account will make it even easier to follow you.

Anyway, just wanted to register my appreciation.

Thank you for providing posts informed by science literacy and common sense, especially right now with so much high octane crazy flooding the web on the subject of swine flu.

Great topic.. I will definitely follow you.. keep it up..

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