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Presents a view of how history's victors have distorted and suppressed the records to perpetuate their power and privilege, with examples from the Inquisition, Joan of Arc, anti-labor biases of textbooks, and Herbert Hoover.

Recounts the crash of Korean Air Line flight 007, from Alaska to Seoul, where the plane veered off course into Soviet air space, and was shot down by the Russian air force.

Discusses hidden psychological influences on people's decision-making process about things such as relationships, advice, and money, drawing from fields such as social psychology and organizational behavior, revealing that loss aversion, diagnosis bias, and the "chameleon effect" can lead to irrational behaviors.

A caustic assessment of misinformation in today's medical industry discusses placebo effects, double-blind studies, and sample sizes while charging the media with irresponsible practices that spread deceptive claims.

Seventeen-year-old Katie uses a magical locket to change past mistakes, with disastrous results.

Tells what went wrong with eight of the twentieth-century's most publicized scientific studies, including SETI (the search for exterrestrial intelligence), the Biosphere 2, cold fusion, and the theory of intelligence quotient.

Some tall tales and legends of history that are accepted as facts are exposed as fiction.

Carson Blake, having overcome his difficult childhood by growing up to be a police officer in Maryland, sees all he has worked for put into peril when he shoots and kills a young man wielding a cell phone Blake mistook for a gun.

Explores the history of journalism mistakes, looks at sometimes amusing examples of print and broadcast errors, and discusses why the number of media mistakes seems to be on the rise.