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This newsletter is designed to give you facts in the rawest form. Not through an article or a study, but through compact, susceptible doses. It has been brought to my attention in the past when facts have been questionable, and it seems with every instance the time in between becomes longer and longer. I confirm the facts that I find, but never is the chance of bad information slipping through at zero. Even the 1996 publication of the Webster's Dictionary, which you would have paid $20 for, misspelled about 300 words.

The content I go through also dictates that I read the words "million", "billion" and "trillion" about a zillion times a week. So when I said 17 billion barrels of oil are used to produce bottled water each year last week, I meant 17 million, and it's not because I am "mathematically challenged," it's that I made a very common typo. However, when it comes to bad information, remember that I am not going directly to ethnologists, water bottling companies, BP, who turns over an average of 2.6 million barrels of oil a day as of 2005, or the Saudi Government to compile and calculate my own data. It is not my interest to make anyone mad, so please don't take anything I write - whether you find it true or not - personally; that's my job!

Next week is Fact vs. Fallacy week. We will take a look at common misconceptions circling the internet.