New Disinfo book: 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know

Posted by MacDood
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Comment: So now you know---

The subculture aficionados at Disinformation have released a new book. 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know is filled with "factoids about human health hazards, government lies, and secret history and warfare excised from your schoolbooks and nightly news reports." Tinfoil beanie cap not included. Within the bite-sized chapters, you'll find "irrefutable evidence" that:

* Nearly all American milk-cows are infected with Bovine Leukemia Virus

* One of the heroes of 'Black Hawk Down' was a convicted child molester

* The Bayer Company developed and marketed another "wonder drug": Heroin

* After 9/11, White House staff reviewed and considered a Special Ops presentation, Thinking Outside the Box: Poisoning Afghanistan's Food Supply

* Pope Pius II wrote a best selling erotic novel

* Positive HIV test results are wrong for half of all low-risk people

* Two atomic bombs were dropped on North Carolina

* You can mail letters for little to no cost using simple methods to fool
the post office

* Senior auto industry execs characterize SUV drivers as "insecure and vain... nervous about their marriages... self-centered and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbors or communities."

Link to Disinfo home, Link to book ordering info. [Boing Boing]