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| title = June 17, 2003
| caption = Listen to this episode on [https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/605-june-17-2003 Libsyn] [https://open.spotify.com/episode/1eYZUrrYspdhiUFHjgPS3x Spotify], Read the [[Transcript/605: June 17, 2003|Unofficial Transcript]], View discussion on [https://reddit.com/q7345k Reddit]
| episodeNumber = 605
| length = 00:53:00
| airDate = October 13, 2021
| coverageDate = June 17, 2003
| episodeType = [[:Category:2003 Investigation|2003 Investigation]]
| appearance = [[John Dewey]], [[Melville Dewey]]
| previousEpisode = [[604: October 5, 2021]]
| nextEpisode = [[606: June 18-19, 2003]]
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Today, Dan and Jordan take a little jaunt back to the past. In this installment, Alex freestyles a bunch of incorrect facts, lies about Porton Down, and warns that special education classes are a plot to kidnap children.

==Tidbits==

*End of the world will be genetically engineered bioweapon release
*Porton Down claims animal rights activist stole and released food and mouth
*Foot and mouth was released because farmers wanted to leave the EU
*Race specific bioweapons in Janes magazine
*Porton Down was privatized and sold to they Carlisle group
*There's cannibalism in North Korea because Kim Jong Il is a neposistic leader
*If you die in North Korea, you're sold for meat
*North Korean opium is brought to the US to make your children whores
*Caller: My child has 2 different color eyes
*Different color eyes means twins didn't divide
*Special ed classes will steal your kids
*Caller: They're swiping cards at the Taco Bell drive-thru
*Caller: Oklahoma city council is going to overturn the Patriot Act
*Alex doesn't know who [[John Dewey]] is
*Melville Dewey background
*Caller: The government did monkey pox
*Iraq is printing Sadam bank notes again

==Detailed Show Notes==

Topics covered<ref>[https://knowledgefight.com/research/2021/10/12/episode-605-june-17-2003 Episode #605: June 17, 2003]</ref>:

*Alex makes up a [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/26/footandmouth.peterhetherington bunch of nonsense] about [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/mar/22/footandmouth.paulbrown Porton Down releasing foot-and-mouth]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071025031456/http://www.defra.gov.uk/footandmouth/investigations/pdf/spratt_final.pdf 2007 UK government report] on the foot-and-mouth outbreak
*Not sure if Janes covered race-specific bioweapons, but [https://sites.google.com/site/bioterrorbible/BIO-WEAPONS/RACE-SPECIFIC-BIO-WEAPONS American Free Press did]
*Alex thinks that a subsidiary of the Carlyle Group purchased Porton Down, which is not true. Porton Down is actually [https://www.portonsciencepark.com/tenants/ a large science park], the lab Alex is thinking of is called the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory
*Alex covers [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/1432366/Famine-struck-N-Koreans-eating-children.html stories of cannibalism] in North Korea
*Alex mixes up the story of Kim Jong Il [https://www.history.com/news/north-korea-kim-jong-il-kidnapped-actress-obsessed-films kidnapping two South Korean movie-makers], and a story about Kim Jong Il apologizing for [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/sep/18/japan.northkorea special forces agents kidnapping Japanese nationals] in the 1970's and 80's
*Alex thinks that North Korea is a major exporter of opium. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-109shrg28241/html/CHRG-109shrg28241.htm It is not]. Afghanistan (and Myanmar back in 2003) were [https://www.unodc.org/res/wdr2021/field/WDR21_Booklet_3.pdf by far the world leaders] on that front
*Alex is wrong about [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-someone-get-two/ why some people have two different colored eyes]
*Alex is wrong about John Dewey creating the Dewey Decimal System. That was Melvil Dewey, and [https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2018/06/01/melvil-dewey-bringing-harassment-out-of-the-history-books/ he really sucks]
*Coalition forces needed to print dinars with Saddam's face on them because the [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2979906.stm people in Iraq had lost confidence] in the only other currency

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