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Can human growth hormone slow aging?

By Cecil Adams
July 9, 2004

Eat or be eaten: Is cannibalism a pathology as listed in the DSM-IV?

By Cecil Adams
July 2, 2004

Did Western gunfighters really face off one-on-one?

By Cecil Adams
June 25, 2004

Is phi a mystical number as claimed in The Da Vinci Code?

By Cecil Adams
June 18, 2004

#1 with a bullet: Why is the U.S. military budget so high?

By Cecil Adams
June 11, 2004

Did the Nazis make lampshades out of human skin?

By Cecil Adams
June 4, 2004

Before Roe v. Wade, did 10,000 women a year die from illegal abortions?

By Cecil Adams
May 28, 2004

Remembering the Alamo (and the death of Davy Crockett)

By Cecil Adams
May 14, 2004

Does chewing celery consume more calories than it provides?

By Cecil Adams
May 7, 2004

How does nitroglycerin stop heart attacks?

By Cecil Adams
April 30, 2004

Do cannonballs explode in flaming fashion as depicted in "Pirates of the Caribbean?"

By Cecil Adams
April 23, 2004

Can you get amnesia from a blow to the head?

By Cecil Adams
April 16, 2004

Is the Children's Crusade fact or fable?

By Cecil Adams
April 9, 2004

Was Abraham Lincoln gay?

By Cecil Adams
April 2, 2004

Is suicide against the law?

By Cecil Adams
March 26, 2004

Can Tupperware cause botulism?

By Cecil Adams
March 19, 2004

More on memes: The Teeming Millions lose their minds

By Cecil Adams
March 12, 2004

The Mole People revisited

By Cecil Adams
March 5, 2004

Who owns the major U.S. media outlets?

By Cecil Adams
February 27, 2004

Are Pygmies really human?

By Cecil Adams
February 20, 2004

What's a meme?

By Cecil Adams
February 13, 2004

Does the United States lead the world in prison population?

By Cecil Adams
February 6, 2004

What's the true story on South American Nazis?

By Cecil Adams
January 30, 2004

Does caffeine stunt your growth?

By Cecil Adams
January 23, 2004

Does it take fewer muscles to smile than it does to frown?

By Cecil Adams
January 16, 2004

Are there really "Mole People" living under the streets of New York City?

By Cecil Adams
January 9, 2004

What happened to Napoleon's penis?

By Cecil Adams
January 2, 2004

In what language do deaf people think?

By Cecil Adams
December 26, 2003

Are we living in a new "Gilded Age" of income inequality?

By Cecil Adams
December 19, 2003

What's the story on Leo Strauss?

By Cecil Adams
December 12, 2003

Are camp lanterns radioactive?

By Cecil Adams
December 5, 2003

What's the true story on ethanol?

By Cecil Adams
November 28, 2003

Are "cage free" chickens really better?

By Cecil Adams
November 21, 2003

Did "Potemkin villages" really exist?

By Cecil Adams
November 14, 2003

Did John F. Kennedy really write "Profiles in Courage?"

By Cecil Adams
November 7, 2003

Do curveballs really curve?

By Cecil Adams
October 31, 2003

Handwriting Analyis Revisited: Are elements of personality revealed through handwriting?

By Cecil Adams
October 24, 2003

Saints and Popes revisited: Were Pius XI and Pius XII anti-Semitic?

By Cecil Adams
October 17, 2003

Can use of Ecstacy cause fatal fever? What "Indignities" are grounds for divorce?

By Cecil Adams
October 10, 2003

Does multiple personality disorder really exist?

By Cecil Adams
October 3, 2003

In whodunits, "the butler did it." Who did it first?

By Cecil Adams
September 26, 2003

How can a corporation be legally considered a person?

By Cecil Adams
September 19, 2003

Was Sigmund Freud a quack?

By Cecil Adams
September 12, 2003

What is the "designated hitter" rule in baseball?

By Cecil Adams
September 5, 2003

If nuclear fallout lasts thousands of years, how did Hiroshima and Nagasaki recover so quickly?

By Cecil Adams
August 29, 2003

What is nymphomania?

By Cecil Adams
August 22, 2003

Whatever became of B. F. Skinner?

By Cecil Adams
August 15, 2003

Was Anne Frank the only author of her famous diary?

By Cecil Adams
August 8, 2003

Did John Dillinger really die outside the Biograph Theater?

By Cecil Adams
August 1, 2003

Medium and message revisited: Was Marshall McLuhan a visionary?

By Cecil Adams
July 25, 2003

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