Big Picture Science – Zombies Aren’t Real: Robert Smith?

by Gary Niederhoff on November 12, 2012

Part 3 of Skeptic Check: Zombies Aren’t Real, featuring Robert Smith?, mathematician and epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa, in Canada, on using a hypothetical zombie invasion as a tool for teaching about the spread of infectious disease in populated areas.
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