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...doubt out of fear that what they might find would put them out of business). Its Tobacco Institute picked apart every new Surgeon General's report and trivialized the damning findings of dedicated independent public-health investigators. And its executives, in what amounted to a premeditated conspiracy to disinform the American people, continued to deny what they and their scientists, according to a critical mass of internal documents unearthed during the past decade, knew to be true about the addictive and fatal nature of their product. By capitulating now, despite all its past success in defeating liability claims by victimized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS IT REALLY A GOOD DEAL? | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...professor must also disinform himself of when and where sections meet and must be sure never to attend them. Most of all, however, he must be utterly incapable of running any mechanical equpiment. Question 7 of the Disinformation Exam reads as follows...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: The Disinformation Exam | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

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