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August 17, 2012

Strange But True!

Q. Performance-enhancing drugs in sports are one thing, polydactyl pitchers are quite another. In what fascinating sense do the two somewhat overlap?

A. While most sports fans decry the use of such drugs, pointing to the rapid beefing up of Barry Bonds, others ask why Tommy John surgery is OK when it's not “natural” either, says Steve Mirsky in Scientific American magazine.


 
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