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Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Terror on the Right -- A "Wink and Nod" from the CIA -- Neocon Noir -- Financial Terrorism -- Little Hitlers -- Corporate-Sponsored Death Squads -- Nixon's Jackals -- Hard Rain in the Balkans -- Death Merchants -- The Galls Bust -- The Lexington Comair Crash -- The Teterboro Incident -- Darwin's Devolution and CIA-Republican Terrorism 101 -- Flight Lesson -- Teterboro & the CIA -- Project Anthrax -- Part I SAIC, Stephen Hatfill, et al. & Bio-Economic State Terrorism -- Part II SAIC, Protected Conspirator Stephen Hatfill & Bio-Economic State Terrorism -- Intermission: Press Gallery -- Part III Bruce "Lone Gunman" Ivins, Bioport, Booz-Allen Hamilton, the CIA & the Bush Administration -- Intermission II: Bruce Ivins and BioPort -- Part IV The BioPort Loop, Hatfill & Special Forces, Introduction to Vaxgen, Ivins Redux & Rumsfeld -- Part V Operation Jefferson -- Part VI Vaxgen's Donald Frances & AIDS -- The Thai Experiments -- The Mailings as Nazi-Style "Clinical Trials" -- GOP Ties to Three of the 9/11 Hijackers -- Holocaust Profiteering, Starving Congolese Children & Fixing Elections: The Manhattan Institute's Paul E. Singer -- Adnan Khashoggi and an American Pinay Circle -- Richard Perle's "Narco-Terrorist" Business Partner -- Al Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf & the CIA's Terror Incubator in the Philippines -- Adnan Khashoggi, Alexander Voloshin & the 1999 Moscow Apartment Bombings -- Nazi Connections to the Khashoggi Syndicate -- The Brother of James Earl Ray Links the CIA to the Murder of Martin L. King, and Details Abuse at the Hands of the FBI -- The Biggest Political Scandal of the Past Decade: Lockheed/Sandia, Bush's State Dept., Pakistan's Nuclear Black Market & the Hidden Politics of the Plame Affair

'A powerful and punchy explanation of why misinformation is a problem that affects us all - be that in finance, politics, media, business or anywhere else. Edmans offers clear ideas about how to counter this, not just in our own lives but also across society as a whole. Timely and very provocative!' - Gillian Tett, Editor-at-Large, Financial Times'Not only brilliantly researched and written but immensely practical' - Andy Haldane, former Chief Economist at the Bank of England'A timely book and, despite the nerdy statistical theories, is often quite funny' Harry Wallop, The TimesA ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases affect the way we receive and interpret information, with practical suggestions for how to think more critically* Featured in Adam Grants 8 New Idea Books to Start Spring *Our lives are minefields of misinformation. Stories, statistics and studies lie to us on a daily basis. Not only this but, as Professor Alex Edmans reveals, our brains lie to us too. He argues that we need to acknowledge and understand the role that our own human biases play in interpreting and digesting the information that we consume. It's only when we do, that we can actively resist being manipulated, and make informed decisions that improve our lives.'A passionate and dispassionate call to truth - and how to achieve it - in a world of growing disinformation' - Will Hutton, author of The State We're In