John Stossel — award-winning journalist, tireless consumer-rights crusader, and anchor of ABC’s newsmagazine 20/20 — has built his reputation on willingness to debunk conventional wisdom, no matter the source. In his latest New York Timesbestseller, which has sold more than 200,000 copies in hardcover, he busts the myths, lies, and downright stupidity clogging media outlets on all sides of the spectrum. Taking a shovel to the heaps of misinterpretations and outright mistakes passing for “fact” these days, Stossel proves:

–That contrary to popular belief, Americans have more free time now than ever before;
–How DDT could actually save millions of lives annually, if only we hadn’t been wrongly convinced it caused cancer;
–That Republicans don’t shrink government — they expand it;
–Why bottled water is a rip-off (hint: it not only doesn’t taste better than tap, it’s no healthier either!);
–How “defective product” lawsuits end up depriving us of safer products;
–Why it’s okay to marry your cousin;
–And much, much more.

Bursting with facts, sharp insights, and plain old common sense, Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity is a modern muckraking classic.

Reviews
“Stossel scores a hit with Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity . . . a worthwhile investment of your money and your time.” — Chicago Sun-Times

“Proving that learning can indeed be fun, John Stossel flays conventional wisdom with startling research and straight talk. Reading Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity will immediately make you smarter than your friends. And that’s no lie.” — Bill O’Reilly

“Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity is John Stossel at his very best: blunt, brilliant, counterintuitive — and, best of all, brutally impatient with all the drones, yes-men, and hustlers that try to hide the truth from us.” — Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics

“Snappy debunkings of alarmism, witch-hunts, satanic ritual abuse prosecutions, and marketing hokum.” — Publishers Weekly

“Most folks will learn more in this wee volume than they probably did during four years of college . . .So buy the book. Read it. Absorb it.” –Forbes