Watch Your Hands

A study has found a strange link between left-handedness and pedophilia.

After previous work suggested a link between left-handedness and pedophilia, he and other scientists at the Toronto centre set out to examine the question more closely. They surveyed more than 400 sex offenders....

Among those whose primary sexual interest was children under 12, more than 30% were left-handed -- three times the rate in the general population or among sex offenders who favour adult victims.

Similar associations have been found between left-handedness and major neurological disorders such as Down's syndrome and autism, the paper said. Although left-handedness has been linked to mathematical geniuses and musicians, it is more often associated with negative outcomes.

The word sinister is derived from the Latin root word sinestre, which means left side. Maybe the ancients were on to something?