Our world usually consists of us, our family, work, sleep and everything else in between. It is both what happens in between our ears and what happens between us and the outside world. We usually feel we have a pretty good grasp of reality. We can get comfortable knowing how the world works, but here is the rub, we can and do make bad choices and bad decisions that waste effort, time and money because what we assume is true is in fact not true. That is where this book comes in. A lot of what we hear others say, what you see when you look on television and read on the internet is often just opinion, not facts. Occasionally, what we think is just someone's opinion is in fact real. But more often it seems what you hear or read is all too often just made up.

This book is designed to provide truthful, useful and surprising information, not faulty assumptions or misleading statements. Bad information can produce bad decisions and wasted effort. So what you will find in this book is that every fact in the book is referenced. If you doubt the information you can check the source. If you doubt the source look it up yourself.So there you have it, within these pages you will find common fallacies and the facts that can help you make smarter personal, family and work decisions. But the book is not simply about getting better information. Sometimes it is just the experience of learning something new and surprising, things that make you say, Oh, my gosh can that be true? Yes, it is, that's a fact!

Despite what many might think, all the following statements are false. If you doubt it, look inside the book: