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Tagged Works
- They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions by Paul F. Jr Boller
- Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths by Alberto A. Martinez
- Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory by Edward G. Lengel
- Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism by W. Joseph Campbell
- Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion by Ronald L. Numbers
- Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea by Christine Garwood
- Cult Archaeology and Creationism: Understanding Pseudoscientific Beliefs about the Past by Francis B. Harrold
- The Death of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World--And What We Can Do by Steven Brill
- Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse
- The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care by Rina Raphael
- Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
- The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani
- How Well Do Facts Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge by Peter Howlett
- The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer
- The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin
- Blowing Smoke: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies about the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, and Turn Junior into a Raging Homosexual by Michael Wolraich
- The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History by Jill Lepore
- Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
- Health, Risk and News: The MMR Vaccine and the Media by Tammy Boyce
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