Deadly Decisions: How False Knowledge Sank the Titanic, Blew up the Shuttle and Led America Into War, Christopher Burns One of the country's leading information experts searches the biology of the brain, the behavior of groups and the structure of organizations for practical answers to the problem of virtual truth--elaborate constructs of interally consistent evidence and assumptions that purport to describe reality, but are often dead wrong. "If the Information Age ever had a wakeup call it is this. Deadly Decisions points out the perils as well as the promise of betting our lives on information, at a time when we have no other choice."