"Boston, MA -- Firearms are used to kill two out of every three homicide victims in America. In the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of homicide, researchers at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center found that homicide rates among children, and among women and men of all ages, are higher in states where more households have guns. The study appears in the February 2007 issue of Social Science and Medicine."  (more)

Also in the March 2007 issue of the Journal of the Completely Obvious, a subsidiary of Duh Publishing.  The scientists next are going to study the suspected correlation between blindness and staring directly at the sun.