Kick - 100 Things Youre Not Supposed to Know

This book sheds light on those things that people in powergovernment, religious leaders, corporations, the rich and well connectedwould just as soon wish you didnt know. To them secrets are power. And theyll do whatever it takes to keep them that way suppressing the truth and covering up facts that might make the rest of us angry enough to challenge the powerful or at least to have a good laugh at their expense.;Contents note continued: 31. The Insurance Industry Wants to Genetically Test All Policy Holders -- 32. Smoking Causes Problems Other Than Lung Cancer and Heart Disease -- 33. Herds of Milk-Producing Cows Are Rife With Bovine Leukemia Virus -- 34. Most Doctors Dont Know the Radiation Level of CAT Scans -- 35. Medication Errors Kill Thousands Each Year -- 36. Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 Annually -- 37. Work Kills More People Than War -- 38. The Suicide Rate Is Highest Among the Elderly -- 39. For Low-Risk People, a Positive Result from an HIV Test Is Wrong Half the Time -- 40. DNA Matching Is Not Infallible -- 41. An FBI Expert Testified That Lie Detectors Are Worthless for Security Screening -- 42. The Bayer Company Made Heroin -- 43. LSD Has Been Used Successfully in Psychiatric Therapy -- 44. Carl Sagan Was an Avid Pot-Smoker -- 45. One of the Heroes of Black Hawk Down Is a Convicted Child Molester -- 46. The Auto Industry Says That SUV Drivers Are Selfish and Insecure.;Contents note continued: 47. The Word Squaw Is Not a Derisive Term for the Vagina -- 48. You Can Mail Letters for Little or No Cost -- 49. Advertisers Influence on the News Media Is Widespread -- 50. The Worlds Museums Contain Innumerable Fakes -- 51. Men Have Clitorises -- 52. Out of Every 100 People, Ten Werent Fathered by the Man They Believe Is Dad -- 53. Hardcore Sexual Imagery Is as Old as the Human Race -- 54. Shakespeares Works Are Loaded With Sexual Jokes and Terms -- 55. Barbie Is Based on a German Sex Doll -- 56. Fetuses Masturbate -- 57. Some Legal, Readily Available Substances Can Get Users High -- 58.A DEA Judge Ruled That Pot Is Medically Beneficial -- 59. Each Month, New Warnings Are Added to the Labels of 40 Drugs -- 60. SUVs Are Over 3 Times More Likely Than Cars to Kill Pedestrians Who Are Struck -- 61. Aristotle Set Back Science For Around 2,000 Years -- 62. Native Americans Were Kept as Slaves -- 63. George Washington Embezzled Government Funds.;Contents note continued: 64. The Declaration of Independence Contains a Racially Derogatory Remark -- 65. James Audubon Killed All the Birds He Painted -- 66. One-Quarter of Lynching Victims Were Not Black -- 67. Freud Failed to Help His Patients -- 68. The Board Game Monopoly Was Swiped From Quakers -- 69. Gandhi Refused to Let His Dying Wife Take Penicillin Yet Took Quinine to Save Himself -- 70. Several Thousand Americans Were Held in Nazi Concentration Camps -- 71. The US Has Almost Nuked Canada, Britain, Spain, Greenland, and Texas -- 72. During the Cold War, the Code to Unlock Nuclear Missiles Was 00000000 -- 73. The Government Practically Gives Away Valuable Land to Corporate Interests -- 74. Most Corporations Pay No Federal Income Tax -- 75. The Military Used to Put Slanderous Secret Codes on Discharge Papers -- 76. One in Three American Homeless Men Is a Military Veteran -- 77. The US Imprisons More of Its Population Than Any Other Country.;Contents note continued: 78. The Government Can Take Your Property Without Even Charging You With a Crime -- 79. The EPA Lied About New Yorks Air Quality After 9/11 -- 80. Condoleezza Rice Committed Perjury Before the 9/11 Commission -- 81. Al Qaeda Attacks Have Increased Substantially Since 9/11 -- 82. The Patriot Act Is Used in Cases That Have Nothing to Do With Terrorism -- 83. The Government Offered Around 30 Reasons for the Iraq Invasion -- 84.A Leading Pentagon Hawk Admitted the Iraq Invasion Was Illegal -- 85. The US Runs a Network of at Least 20 Secret Prisons -- 86. The Government Has a Database of Every Child Porn Image Ever Made -- 87. Presidential Debates Are Strictly Controlled by the Two Major Political Parties -- 88. For Over 100 Years, Almost Every Discharge of Waste Into US Waters Has Been Illegal -- 89. The Water Supply Is Filled With Small Amounts of Pharmaceuticals and Other Chemicals -- 90. Well Over 300,000 Tons of Chemical Weapons Have Been Dumped into the Sea.;Contents note continued: 91. Cigarette Butts Are the Most Common Type of Litter -- 92. Caviar Involves Extraordinary Cruelty -- 93. The Hippocratic Oath Has Been Changed Dramatically -- 94. Most Hysterectomies Are Unnecessary -- 95. Using Sunscreen Can Cause Cancer -- 96. Involuntary Human Experimentation Is Not a Thing of the Past -- 97. Head Transplants on Monkeys Have Already Been Performed -- 98. Scientists Are Recreating the 1918 Spanish Flu Virus -- 99. The Vatican, Including the Pope, Is Directly Involved in the Catholic Churchs Pedophile Cover-up -- 100. Gods Name Is Jealous.;Contents note continued: 16. Adolph Hitlers Blood Relatives Are Alive and Well in New York State -- 17. Around One Quarter of Witches Were Men -- 18. The Virginia Colonists Practiced Cannibalism -- 19. Many of the Pioneering Feminists Opposed Abortion -- 20. Black People Served in the Confederate Army -- 21. Electric Cars Have Been Around Since the 1880s -- 22. Juries Are Allowed to Judge the Law, Not Just the Facts -- 23. The Police Arent Legally Obligated to Protect You -- 24. The Government Can Take Your House and Land, Then Sell Them to Private Corporations -- 25. The Supreme Court Has Ruled That Youre Allowed to Ingest Any Drug, Especially If Youre an Addict -- 26. The Age of Consent in Most of the US Is Not Eighteen -- 27. Most Scientists Dont Read All of the Articles They Cite -- 28. Louis Pasteur Suppressed Experiments That Didnt Support His Theories -- 29. The Creator of the GAIA Hypothesis Supports Nuclear Power -- 30. Genetically-Engineered Humans Have Already Been Born.;Machine generated contents note: 01. The Ten Commandments We Always See Arent the Ten Commandments -- 02. One of the Popes Wrote an Erotic Book -- 03. The CIA Commits Over 100,000 Serious Crimes Each Year -- 04. The First CIA Agent to Die in the Line of Duty Was Douglas Mackiernan -- 05. After 9/11, the Defense Department Wanted to Poison Afghanistans Food Supply -- 06. The US Government Lies About the Number of Terrorism Convictions It Obtains -- 07. The US Is Planning to Provoke Terrorist Attacks -- 08. The US and Soviet Union Considered Detonating Nuclear Bombs on the Moon -- 09. Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped on North Carolina -- 10. World War III Almost Started in 1995 -- 11. The Korean War Never Ended -- 12. Agent Orange Was Used in Korea -- 13. Kent State Wasnt the Only --- or Even the First --- Massacre of College Students During the Vietnam Era -- 14. Winston Churchill Believed in a Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy -- 15. The Auschwitz Tattoo Was Originally an IBM Code Number.