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Do brain supplements do anything?
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Why does South America grow all the coca?
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How credible are the new blood-pressure guidelines?
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Are infectious diseases becoming untreatable?
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What’s the skinny on artificial sweeteners like aspartame?
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If everything else is more expensive in Europe, why do we pay more for healthcare?
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Is scopolamine as scary as its reputation?
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Why does lethal injection go wrong so often?
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Why don’t we bomb Afghanistan’s poppy fields?
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Why isn’t heroin used for lethal injections?
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Is any one crime to blame for the high U.S. imprisonment rate?
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Why do only low-level workers get drug-tested?
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What’s the story on probiotics?
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Cecil Adams
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Do antidepressants only work because of the placebo effect?
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Is marijuana stronger than it used to be?
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Will using expired drugs kill you?
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Do truth serums work?
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Is there any difference in quality between name-brand drugs and generics?
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Cecil Adams
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Drugs
Who was the real Casey Jones?
A STAFF REPORT FROM THE STRAIGHT DOPE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD
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Why are most cough medicines cherry-flavored?
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A prescription for death: Does doctors’ illegible handwriting kill more than 7,000 patients annually? Is drinking alcohol a good cold cure?
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People take medications. They excrete them. What happens next? Could it affect the water supply?
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Is it dangerous to eat magic mushrooms before they have dried out? What mushrooms are safe to eat?
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Why do some people have that one extra-long fingernail on the pinkie finger?
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Does PCP turn people into cannibals?
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Is brainwashing possible?
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Do intravenous sedatives act instantly as depicted by Hollywood?
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Cecil Adams
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Is iceberg lettuce a drug?
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Cecil Adams
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Drugs
What happened to Mercurochrome?
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Cecil Adams
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Drugs
Why do cops in movies taste cocaine?
A STAFF REPORT FROM THE STRAIGHT DOPE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD
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Drugs
What’s the story behind Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven?”
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Cecil Adams
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Does "assassin" derive from "hashish"?
A STAFF REPORT FROM THE STRAIGHT DOPE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD
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Straight Dope Staff
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Drugs
Did Sigmund Freud use cocaine on his patients?
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Cecil Adams
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Drugs
Did Carlos Castaneda hallucinate that stuff in the Don Juan books or make it up?
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Cecil Adams
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