
+ “Snoopers at work” is about the legal rights of businesses & employers to spy on their customers & employees, not only by the old, standard methods, such as reading e-mail and using surveillance cameras, but also by getting access to health records, taking urine samples for TAD [Tobacco Alcohol Drugs] to enforce the company’s rules, “that forbid their employees to drink or smoke at any time – even one beer, even on a Saturday night”, and much more. Big brother your company is watching you!
+ “Hotel California”, in which Bill convincingly argues against capital punishment, and “The Numbers Game”, explaining what GDP (gross domestic product) means (from what I have understood not much) and how much is $11 billion.
+ “Spinning the truth” talks about “the extent to which corporations and other big businesses lie to you”.
Quote:
Last year, according to the Boston Globe, two universities, Tufts and UCLA, looked into the financial interests of the authors of 789 articles in leading medical journals, and found that in 34 per cent of cases at least one of the authors had an undeclared financial interest in the success of the report. In one typical case a researcher who had tested the efficacy of a new cold treatment owned several thousand shares in the company that manufactured it. Upon publication of the report, the shares soared and he sold them at a profit of $145, 000. I’m not saying that the man performed bad science, but it must have crept through his mind that a negative report would have rendered the shares worthless.
He also wrote articles about “The Mysteries of Christmas”, “Shopping Madness”, “Your New Computer”, “Lost in Cyber Land”, “In Praise of Diners”, “Those Boring Foreigners” (about the little exposure to non-American things in newspapers and on TV), and much more.