Your poor research and insistence on hyperbole rather than perspective does a terrible disservice to your readers. In many cases, your "facts" are in grave error...

Quick scenario: deserted island, colorful fruits and vegetation. How do I know what I should eat and what I should feed to my mother-in-law?

Are electric trains and other forms of mass transit an energy loser compared to driving a car? What with energy-transmission costs and poor ridership...

Is it necessary for the fire department to rescue a cat that’s stuck in a tree? I mean, c’mon, they got up there. Can’t they get down on their own?

The restaurant around the corner from where I work has started using corn-based “compostable” plastic takeout containers.

On the one hand, I want to eat farm-raised salmon because wild salmon is being depleted by overfishing...

I have heard Thomas Jefferson traded marijuana blends with George Washington and the other founding fathers. I find this hard to believe, but the rumor is ubiquitous. Can anyone verify it?

What’s the straight dope on truth serums? What are they? What exactly do they do? Do sodium pentothal and the like really make witnesses spill their guts?

I just read your 1981 column on what would happen if the Earth were swallowed by a black hole...