The Truth about Jesus: Is He A Myth?
M.M. Mangasarian (1859-1943): prolific freethought writer and lecturer; author of six books
"We have in the story of the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus, an ancient and nearly universal Sun-myth, instead of verifiable historical events."

The Bible Code: Scientific, Statistical Proof of God? Or Just Another Lie?
David Thomas: physicist; president of New Mexicans for Science and Reason; Skeptical Inquirer consulting editor
"The promoters of hidden-message claims say, 'How could such amazing coincidences be the product of random chance?' I think the real question should be, 'How could such coincidences not be the inevitable product of a huge sequence of trials on a large, essentially random database?'"

Mystics and Messiahs: Mythkiller Philip Jenkins Unravels the Gospel about "Cults"
interview with Philip Jenkins
"One criterion that people try to use to differentiate cults from churches is that cults have no roots in a given society, that they are new outbreaks of alien ideas. By those standards, there are no cults. The example I use is that America had Rosicrucians and alchemists before it had Methodists, so the occult is nothing new-—we have groups organized by the 1690s."

Who's Who in Hell: His Secular Holiness Reveals the Hidden Legacy of Non-Belief
interview with Warren Allen Smith: freethought activist and writer; author of Who's Who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists, and Non-Theists
"Playwright Arthur Miller, for example, when asked what kind of humanist he is, replied that it depends on the day . . . Thomas Mann granted me the right to label him whatever I wished. 'Humanism is the most precious result of rational meditation upon our existence and that of the world,' wrote Albert Schweitzer, avoiding my question. Robert Frost simply told me his mother was a Swedenborgian."

BLINDED BY SCIENCE

Environmentalism for the Twenty-First Century
Patrick Moore: founding member of Greenpeace; former Director of Greenpeace International; founder of Greenspirit
"Let me give you some specific examples that highlight the [environmental] movement's tendency to abandon science and logic and to get the priorities completely mixed up through the use of sensationalism, misinformation and downright lies."

Humans Have Already Been Cloned
Russ Kick
"It's now routine to see news stories about various mammals being cloned. Almost always, these reports mention that this 'brings us one step closer to cloning humans,' 'human clones are right around the corner,' and other clichés. What every last one of these insightful stories fails to mention is this: Humans have already been cloned."

NutraFear & NutraLoathing in Augusta, Georgia
Alex Constantine: freelance writer; author of several books, including Virtual Government and The Covert War Against Rock
"The FDA has received more complaints of aspartame poisoning than all other food additives combined, about 75 percent."

Forbidden Archaeology
Michael Cremo: lecturer; author of Forbidden Archeology
"Over the past 150 years archaeologists have found abundant evidence showing that human beings like ourselves have existed for hundreds of millions of years. This evidence, practically unknown to both scientists and members of the public, radically contradicts the picture of human origins that is presented to us by Darwin’s modern followers, who say that we evolved fairly recently-—within the past 100,000 years or so-—from some more apelike ancestors."

There Is So Much That We Don't Know: Selections from the Science Frontiers Book and Newsletter
William R. Corliss: freelance writer; science consultant; publisher of Sourcebooks; author of over 55 books
"My view is that anomaly research, while not science per se, has the potential to destabilize paradigms and accelerate scientific change. Anomalies reveal nature as it really is: complex, chaotic, possibly even unplumbable."

THE BIG PICTURE

Will the Real Human Being Please Stand Up?
Riane Eisler: president of Center for Partnership Studies; author of several books, including the classic The Chalice and the Blade
"This kind of approach to the study of human evolution makes it possible for people to refocus from selfishness and violence as the main themes in our evolution to caring and creativity as equally, and in some ways more important, themes. It also makes it possible for us to see that these qualities are part of the nature of both women and men."

You Are Being Lied To: Disinformation Books Roundtable
edited by Alex Burns: editor of the Disinformation Website; freelance writer
Over 30 social activists, media analysts, cutting-edge scientists and philosophers, avant-garde artists, counterculture icons, and conspiracy theorists give a short answer to the question "Are we being lied to, why, and by whom?" Participants include Charles Tart, Stewart Brand, Clifford Pickover, Jodi Dean, John Shirley, and Jeffrey Mishlove.

I Have Met God and He Lives in Brooklyn
Richard Metzger: cofounder of Disinformation; producer and host of Disinfo Nation television series
"[Howard] Bloom wants us to understand hatred, racism, and genocide, to understand our evolutionary development—ourselves, who we are down to the microbial level—so we can outwit the script that an apparently insane programmer, God himself, wrote into our genetic code."

Church of the Motherfucker
Mark Pesce: creator of VRML (virtual reality for the Web); author of four books, including the classic Browsing and Building Cyberspace
"You are your own High Priest. This is the greatest of all the mysteries, the greatest of heresies, that which must not be True if the Center—their center—is to hold."

A Sentient Universe
Peter Russell: author of several books, including The Brain Book and The Global Brain Awakens; producer of videos; lecturer; consultant
"Whether we are considering a human brain with its tens of billions of cells, or a nematode worm with a hundred or so neurons, the problem is the same: How can any purely material process ever give rise to consciousness?"

A Lost Theory?: Introduction to Darwin's Lost Theory of Love
David Loye: former Princeton professor; author of numerous books; cofounder of the General Evolution Research Group
"I discovered there were actually two halves to Darwin's theory. There is the first half, or foundation, of a biological base for his theory, with which we are somewhat familiar. But then Darwin went on to complete his theory with the superstructure of a psychological, systems scientific, humanistic, and morally-grounded 'higher' half—of which today we know almost nothing."

APPENDIXES

Appendix A: More Lies, Myths, and Manipulations
Russ Kick
Short takes on over two dozen more subjects rife with distortion: electroshock, fertility, guns, population, Prozac, sanctions against Iraq, TWA 800, the global economy, world hunger, and more.

Appendix B: More Reading
Russ Kick
Short reviews of and quotes from two dozen books exposing misinformation about race, maps, George W. Bush, male-on-male rape, cousin marriage, animal sexuality, the younger generation, Pearl Harbor, marijuana, the Catholic Church, alternative medicine, psi phenomena, and more.

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