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C O N T E N T S About Disinformation ® 5 Introduction 6 K E Y N OTE A D D R E S S Reality Is a Shared Hallucination | Howard Bloom 12 THE NEWS MEDIA AND OTHER MANIPULATO R S What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream | Noam Chomsky 20 Journalists Doing Somersaults | Norman Solomon 25 The Puppets of Pandemonium | Howard Bloom 29 New Rules for the New Millennium | Gary Webb 38 The Covert News Network | Greg Bishop 40 Why Does the Associated Press Change Its Articles? | Russ Kick 44 We Distort, You Abide | Kenn Thomas 47 The Media and Their Atrocities | Michael Parenti 51 Making Molehills Out of Mountains | Marni Sullivan 56 Why They Hate Oliver Stone | Sam Smith 60 The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV | Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon 63 Sometimes Lying Means Only Telling a Small Part of the Truth | R.U. Sirius, with Michael Horowitz and the Friends of Timothy Leary 64 Upon Hearing of the Electronic Bogeyman | George Smith 66 School Textbooks | Earl Lee 73 The Information Arms Race | Douglas Rushkoff 82 P O L I T R I C K S The War Secrets Senator John McCain Hides | Sydney Schanberg 88 Jimmy Carter and Human Rights | Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon 95 All the President’s Men | David McGowan 97 Oil Before Ozone | Russ Kick 101 God Save the President! | Robin Ramsay 107 Colony Kosovo | Christian Parenti 111 The Truth About Terrorism | Ali Abunimah 114 You Can’t Win | James Ridgeway 117 OFFICIAL V E R S I O N S Anatomy of a School Shooting | David McGowan 124 How the People Seldom Catch Intelligence | Preston Peet 128 Reassessing OKC | Cletus Nelson 139 Votescam | Jonathan Vankin 143 The Rabin Murder Cover-up | Barry Chamish 147 What’s Missing from This Picture? | Jim Marrs 152 THE SOCIAL FA B R I C AT I O N Don’t Blame Your Parents | interview with Judith Rich Harris 164 The Female Hard-on | Tristan Taormino 170 Art and the Eroticism of Puberty | David Steinberg 172 “A World That Hates Gays” | Philip Jenkins 176 Apt Pupils | Robert Sterling 187 A Panic of Biblical Proportions over Media Violence | Paul McMasters 194 The Man in the Bushes | interview with Philip Jenkins 196 You are Being Lied To 8
CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT Amnesia in America | James Loewen 202 Columbus and Western Civilization | Howard Zinn 205 Go Out and Kill People Because This Article Tells You To | Nick Mamatas 214 Saving Private Power | Michael Zezima 219 What I Didn’t Know About the Communist Conspiracy | Jim Martin 227 TRIPPING Drug War Mythology | Paul Armentano 234 Toad-Licking Blues | Thomas Lyttle 241 Poppycock | Jim Hogshire 245 AA Lies | Charles Bufe 254 The Unconscious Roots of the Drug War | Dan Russell 261 H O LY RO L L I N G The Truth About Jesus | M.M. Mangasarian 272 The Bible Code | David Thomas 278 Mystics and Messiahs | interview with Philip Jenkins 286 Who’s Who in Hell | interview with Warren Allen Smith 290 BLINDED BY SCIENCE Environmentalism for the Twenty-First Century | Patrick Moore 296 Humans Have Already Been Cloned | Russ Kick 304 NutraFear & NutraLoathing in Augusta, Georgia | Alex Constantine 307 Forbidden Archaeology | Michael A. Cremo 311 There Is So Much That We Don’t Know | William R. Corliss 316 THE BIG PICTURE Will the Real Human Being Please Stand Up? | Riane Eisler 328 You Are Being Lied To: A Disinformation Books Roundtable | Alex Burns 335 I Have Met God and He Lives in Brooklyn | Richard Metzger 347 Church of the Motherfucker | Mark Pesce 354 A Sentient Universe | Peter Russell 356 A Lost Theory? | David Loye 359 Appendix A: More Lies, Myths, and Manipulations | Russ Kick 364 Appendix B: More Reading | Russ Kick 375 Contributors and Interviewees 392 Article Histories 399 Contents 9
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Page 5 and 6: The Disinfo rm ation Guide to Media
Page 7 and 8: ABOUT DISINFORMATION ® Disinformat
Page 9: A NOTE TO READERS As you’ll notic
Page 14 and 15: Reality Is a Shared Hallucinat i o
Page 16 and 17: When barely out of the womb, babies
Page 18 and 19: again, this time over whether the w
Page 20 and 21: 3 9 . Rubin, J.Z., F.J. Provenzano
Page 22 and 23: Wh at Makes M a i n s t ream Media
Page 24 and 25: ever tells me what to write. I writ
Page 26 and 27: the Creel Commission. In fact, the
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Page 30 and 31: dominated most of every mass medium
Page 32 and 33: My fellow publicists liked riding w
Page 34 and 35: By sifting through tens of thousand
Page 36 and 37: loon, no balloonists, and no transa
Page 38 and 39: We see what we’re told is there,
Page 40 and 41: The New Rules for the N ew Millenni
Page 42 and 43: All warfare is based on deception.
Page 44 and 45: “Psyops personnel, soldiers and o
Page 46 and 47: Why Does the A s s o c i ated Press
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Page 50 and 51: The bisociative idea provides one w
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well. In January, the head of the I
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Why Th ey Hate Oliver Stone Sam Smi
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Thus the elementary school child is
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Sometimes Lying Means Only Telling
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Upon Hearing of the E l e c t ronic
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The “Anti-Christ Doom Squad” an
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The publication of this document at
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Miller dutifully told a hastily con
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the nation’s founders, and avoid
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tence of “old revolutionaries”
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a more politically expedient exhibi
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that might be objected to has been
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The Info rm ation A rms Ra c e Doug
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The reticence of the generation for
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Only by killing its communicative f
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The War Secrets S e n ator John McC
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Over the years, he has regularly vi
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One factor in the nation’s indiff
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ment saying that there was “evide
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Carter used his prestige to give in
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It is interesting to note that afte
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depraved urges the pair could conju
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ized crime figures. Thanks to Gore
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The three books that made the bigge
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The article also delves into the su
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Britain is covered with US military
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The three most important members of
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ing—done with radioactive, deplet
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The Truth About Te rro r i s m Ali
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This paragraph appears to cast any
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never checked out the plasma-collec
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The feds claimed no real harm resul
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i c y. For inspiration, there is Ba
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A n at o my of a School Shooting D
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Moving on to what is perhaps the mo
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H ow the People Seldom Cat ch I n t
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There were numerous examples contai
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D e ath Th re ats A gainst the Head
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A source close to the case confirms
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When police arrested Zavala, they s
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Angeles, Oakland, and elsewhere in
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Partin’s skepticism was echoed by
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The Executive Secretariat’s Offic
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News Election Service had its goal
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no fundraising. The whole campaign
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“Amir was supposed to shoot blank
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Three times, I was invited to appea
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Wh at ’s Missing from This Pictur
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One reason might have been that the
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TWA 800 Space Photos In another pla
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“The FBI has turned over only tho
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called this sprawling conspiracy
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THE SOCIAL FABRICATION
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About 50 percent of the variation i
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he or she is destined to inhabit in
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Some developmentalists seem to have
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misogynist industry that has always
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It has thus become more important t
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While the precise definition of the
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estimates of the gay population, ho
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The suicide issue attracted a subst
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not by Gibson. In 1990, a careful r
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and hatred.” 43 In the New York N
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specific political events like the
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We don’t need no education, We do
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existence of such malignant social
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Could a phenomenon such as social p
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The true purpose behind the Western
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nouncement to another. They conflat
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I would suggest anywhere between a
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Current Problems RK: What ill effec
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CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT
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Several history books still linger
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C o l u m bus and We s t e rn Civ i
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wanted to put my desire into execut
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You might not know the name of Chau
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And yes, there are huge benefits fr
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As I read him, I was reminded of so
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The Anti-Federalists were against a
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are the rich and well-born, the oth
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Was World War II a just war? Is the
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Myth #2: WWII Was Inevitable To bel
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“The first actual combat test of
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the author of the Vichy regime’s
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Wh at I Didn’t Know About the C o
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Had President Franklin Roosevelt di
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New Books on Soviet Espionage Albri
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D rug War Mythology Paul A rm e n t
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terns or individuals’ attitudes t
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disorders. 47 Western medicine embr
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follows initiation into the use of
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One of Christobal’s artworks was
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ernment to ban imports of the poten
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Today’s visitors to the famous es
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alkaloids) in the opium. In the fut
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publication’s editorial policy wa
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• We can see that laws promulgate
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AA Lies Charles Bufe There are prob
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The Origin of the 12 Steps A common
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That most such coerced persons leav
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Endnotes 1. See Alcoholics Anonymou
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inebriative herbalism from any of t
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The Cretan Queens of Knossos were c
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Enuma Elish, ‘When on High,’ ha
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and one of ivory./Issuing by the iv
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HOLY ROLLING
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ing about this hurried flight, nor
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Books which are now rejected as apo
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its theology. It is generally admit
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“UFO” had been found encoded in
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hidden codes (such as “Hitler”
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At the suggestion of a People magaz
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And now, we are left to ponder the
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Church/Disciples of Christ, and Jim
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Religious Laboratories RK: Finally,
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Russ Kick: You mentioned to me that
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Many people, I have found, do not l
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BLINDED BY SCIENCE
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putting them in thousands of oil dr
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whether or not they are native or e
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Since this exchange of corresponden
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Environmentalism for the Twenty-Fir
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Dixon is the author of ten books, i
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N u t ra Fear & Nutra L o athing in
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Alicia Morris, Doraville, Georgia:
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Fo r b i dden A rch a e o l ogy M i
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W h i t n e y ’s work was dismiss
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Such things, technically called int
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U n d e r water Th u m p s Scientis
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Where Have All the Black Holes Gone
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Leatherbacks dive as deep as 3,000
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contain pygmy remains. Not only tha
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The Birthday: Lifeline or Deadline?
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THE BIG PICTURE
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fits characteristic of partnership
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These stories were undoubtably grea
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During this modern industrial age w
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Disinformation Books Roundtable Com
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No one believes anything, so the ac
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I believe that when a group or indi
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It fell to Mehmet Ali Agca, the man
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I remember recently seeing a TV new
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that we use to perpetuate the game
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“Howard, you sound like you’re
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And so it was that I first met Howa
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RM: So Cain and Abel is true? HB: Y
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it’s always ideas that have been
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Noosphere, an Eschaton of sorts, th
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When I am with a dog, I assume that
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A Lost Th e o ry ? Introduction to
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And why, if science has nothing to
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APPENDICES
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Drugs Fry Your Brain “Architect K
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What about the children? “In espo
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people have committed suicide on Pr
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descended from the arc for approxim
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“Perhaps one of the most fallacio
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How to Lie with Maps (second editio
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Perazzo presents numerous surprisin
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Q u o t e: “Our collective amnesi
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were actually more common and more
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Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit by
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same is true of any really innovati
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is actually just a form of establis
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C O N T R I BU TORS AND INTERV I E
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Jeff Cohen—columnist and commenta
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David McGowan is a freelance writer
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Warren Allen Smith is a roué and s
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ARTICLE HISTORIES “AALies” by C
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