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50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know |
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Introduction The 10 Commandments We Always See Aren't the 10 Commandments One of the Popes Wrote an Erotic Book The CIA Commits Over 100,000 Serious Crimes Each Year The First CIA Agent to Die in the Line of Duty Was Douglas Mackiernan After 9/11, the Defense Department Wanted to Poison Afghanistan's Food Supply The US Government Lies About the Number of Terrorism Convictions It Obtains The US Is Planning to Provoke Terrorist Attacks The US and Soviet Union Considered Detonating Nuclear Bombs on the Moon Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped on North Carolina World War III Almost Started in 1995 The Korean War Never Ended Agent Orange Was Used in Korea Kent State Wasn't the Only—or Even the First—Massacre of College Students During the Vietnam Era Winston Churchill Believed in a Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy The Auschwitz Tattoo Was Originally an IBM Code Number Adolph Hitler's Blood Relatives Are Alive and Well in New York State Around One Quarter of "Witches" Were Men The Virginia Colonists Practiced Cannibalism Many of the Pioneering Feminists Opposed Abortion Black People Served in the Confederate Army Electric Cars Have Been Around Since the 1880s Juries Are Allowed to Judge the Law, Not Just the Facts The Police Aren't Legally Obligated to Protect You The Government Can Take Your House and Land, Then Sell Them to Private Corporations The Supreme Court Has Ruled That You're Allowed to Ingest Any Drug, Especially If You're an Addict The Age of Consent in Most of the US Is Not Eighteen Most Scientists Don't Read All of the Articles They Cite Louis Pasteur Suppressed Experiments That Didn't Support His Theories The Creator of the GAIA Hypothesis Supports Nuclear Power Genetically-Engineered Humans Have Already Been Born The Insurance Industry Wants to Genetically Test All Policy Holders Smoking Causes Problems Other Than Lung Cancer and Heart Disease Herds of Milk-Producing Cows Are Rife With Bovine Leukemia Virus Most Doctors Don't Know the Radiation Level of CAT Scans Medication Errors Kill Thousands Each Year Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 Annually Work Kills More People Than War The Suicide Rate Is Highest Among the Elderly For Low-Risk People, a Positive Result from an HIV Test Is Wrong Half the Time DNA Matching Is Not Infallible An FBI Expert Testified That Lie Detectors Are Worthless for Security Screening The Bayer Company Made Heroin LSD Has Been Used Successfully in Psychiatric Therapy Carl Sagan Was an Avid Pot-Smoker One of the Heroes of Black Hawk Down Is a Convicted Child Molester The Auto Industry Says That SUV Drivers Are Selfish and Insecure The Word "Squaw" Is Not a Derisive Term for the Vagina You Can Mail Letters for Little or No Cost Advertisers' Influence on the News Media Is Widespread The World's Museums Contain Innumerable Fakes References About the Author |
©2005 Russ Kick
