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14 “delivers 70 percent more moisture” Television advertisement for Vaseline Dry Skin, http://www.vaseline.com/.
14 29 percent of Christian Saints had exhibited psychic powers Henry Reed and Charles Thomas Cayce, Awakening Your Psychic Powers (New York: Macmillan, 1988), 221.
15 “From first puff to last” Cigarette ad in Life magazine, October 24, 1955, available at http://tobaccodocuments.org/pollay_ads/Ches16.11.html.
16 “If we say [the crowd] was 250,000” Scott Bowles, “Park Police Can Count on a Disputed Crowd Figure; Aerial Photos, Bus Tallies Crucial to Accuracy,” Washington Post, October 15, 1995.
17 in fact, ABC had pegged the crowd “ABC News Was Misquoted on Crowd Size,” ABCNews.com, September 13, 2009, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/protest-crowd-size-estimate-falsely-attributed-abc-news/story?id=8558055.
17 the Washington Post estimated that the crowd was about 10,000 Philip Rucker, “Activists bring ‘tea party’ to Capitol Hill,” Washington Post, November 6, 2009.
17 Worse yet, some of The Sean Hannity Show’s footage The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, November 10, 2009, http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-november-10-2009/sean-hannity-uses-glenn-beck-s-protest-footage.
17n After the deception was exposed Ibid., November 12, 2009, http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-12-2009/sean-hannity-apologizes-to-jon.
23 The U.N insisted “UN Chief welcomes six-billionth baby,” BBC News, October 13, 1999, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/472704.stm.
24 the Chicago Sun-Times declared “She’s one in 300,000,000,” Chicago Sun-Times , October 18, 2006, 6.
28 “Five years ago” George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 23, 2007.
29 Twelfth-grade students’ reading scores declined NAEP Data Explorer, http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/naepdata/.
30 “dramatic upward trend” Jennifer Medina, “Reading and Math Scores Rise Sharply Across N.Y.,” New York Times, June 24, 2008.
30 “What a difference” Michael Winerip, “One Secret to Better Test Scores: Make State Reading Tests Easier,” New York Times, October 5, 2005.
33 “Throughout the first 224 years” “Bush Administration Breaks Record,” press release from the Blue Dog Coalition, November 4, 2005.
33 “$132 million, or 2.4 percent” FYI: The American Institute of Physics Policy News, February 9, 2005, http://www.aip.org/fyi/2005/017.html.
35 They emphasized the point with a graph Ad available at http://cspinet.org/new/pdf/quaker.pdf.
38 “The tax relief we passed” George W. Bush, speech, February 19, 2004, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/02/20040219-4.html.
38 most received less than $650 William G. Gale, Peter R. Orszag, and Isaac Shapiro, “Distributional Effects of the 2001 and 2003 Tax Cuts and Their Financing,” Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, June 3, 2004, http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/UploadedPDF/411018_tax_cuts.pdf.
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39 The chapter epigraph is drawn from Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (New York: Dover, 1952), 182.
39 “Researchers Link Bad Debt to Bad Health” New York Times, March 14, 2000, D8.
40n “will continue with the Sisyphean task” Ben Goldacre, “You are hereby sentenced eternally to wander the newspapers, fruitlessly mocking nutriwoo,” Guardian (UK), July 19, 2008.
47 “this carcinogenic substance” Felicity Lawrence, “MP calls for ban on ‘unsafe’ sweetener,” Guardian (UK), December 15, 2005.
48 In 1984, there were 108 MRI machines Earl P. Steinberg, “The Status of MRI in 1986: Rates of Adoption in the United States and Worldwide,” American Journal of Radiology, September 1986, 453-455.
51 “Marijuana and Your Teen’s Mental Health” Magazine advertisement, Office of National Drug Control Policy, ca. 2005.
52 the “drug of entry into the world of hard drugs” Adam Clymer, “Senate is told that cigarettes are ‘entry’ into hard drugs,” New York Times, March 11, 1994, 22.
53n “There is a mixed view among scientists and doctors” Judy Keen, “Dole still ‘not certain