To drive rum runners away, the treasury department started poisoning the industrial hooch with methyl alcohol. But bootlickers kept on selling it, and people started getting sick. There was even one notation of a possible death as a result. The conspiracy. The government is germ bombing its own people. The truth? Common practice during the Cold War. From 1940 to 1970, America was a giant germ laboratory. The US army wanted to access how vulnerable Americans would be to biological attacks