- ISBN13: 9780971394209
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
This book begins where You Are Being Lied To left off. Once again, an amazing group of investigative journalists, researchers, insiders, dissidents, and academics peels back consensus reality and shows us what’s really happening. Hard, documented evidence on the most powerful institutions and controversial topics in the world. Among the revelations: Antidepressants trash your brain.
China has repeatedly threatened to nuke the US.
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Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies
This book glorifies colonialism.
This book says China now has the capacity to completely destroy the U.S. navy…Hello!? !!!
A collection of lies. Don’t waste your money on this trashy book. It would be an insult to your bookshelf.
Rating: 1 / 5
This an OK book. Poorly organized, and many of the topics do not go into much detail.
Rating: 2 / 5
Each essay is well written and most of the time an interesting argument is presented. You cant help but raise an eyebrow at some of the references though (or lack of them).
Unfortunately the book assumes that you are American, or at least in touch and in tune with a lot of what goes on over there. There are many political and social references made that I have never heard of.
So I think the book should be renamed
‘Americans: Everything you know is wrong’
Rating: 3 / 5
This book was disgusting and offensive. It was explosive for the sake of being explosive. I am not conservative or right wing. This book is against pretty much everything and does not offer any ideas as to how to change the problems of the mainstream. It seems that it was written just to make money for a corporation, the corporation that published it. Yes, thats right, it isn’t some underground independant book, big shocker. It was VERY offensive to women. It also denied mental illness. I would DEFINETLY not recommend this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
Yeah, that’s right. I’m a super-far-left, bleeding heart liberal with near-socialist ideas who wants to rock feeble minds in uptight conservative towns with my loud, crazy music and my bizarre, twisted clothing styles, and I’m giving this book a one-star rating. I’m also reasonably intelligent and have a great fondness for rational thought, logic, and science. This is why I can’t stand “Everything you Know is Wrong” (or its companion, “You Are Being Lied To”).
Other reviewers (for both books) have already made note of some of the more severe errors contained within. Articles about human psychology and medicine, in particular, are at fault; for the most part, the authors of the articles do not cite any scholarly texts or actual scientific studies. Sure, you could be a paranoid nut and claim that they are refusing to cite credible sources because “those sources are evil, man, and they’re giving us the wrong information!” But you’d be a paranoid nut, and that’s usually not a good thing. The way it works in the real world is this: if you want to prove something, such as the effectiveness of an herbal treatment for cancer, then you need to test your hypothesis many times and show to us that your success can be replicated by anybody. You can’t just make wild claims and then pretend they’re true just because you’re being rebellious and sticking it to The Man. I tried that game in high school and it didn’t work—that’s why I have to calm down and prove my points in rational, correct ways.
What is so offensive to me about these books is that they go to such a great effort to make themselves seem important and credible. They assert themselves as being the one voice in our world that you can trust. This is a dangerous thing to read—particularly when many of the articles are based on speculation, anecdotal evidence (always a terrible sign), and simple opinion.
This book, and its partner, are an example of why the first amendment does need some limits. Simply put, everything about these two titles is full of false advertising and empty promises. You are trying to read them to find out the truth about the world, and instead you just get a bunch of disorganized half-truths, lies, and ramblings that end up doing more damage than they do good.
I would go so far as to say that this book is dangerous. Believing certain things can be detrimental to one’s physical and mental health—or even deadly. Do yourself a favor and avoid this title, no matter how delightfully controversial it may appear to be.
Rating: 1 / 5