At a time when popular knowledge of basic science has sunk to a new low and books promoting angels, parapsychology, and bizarre forms of medicine and healing outnumber sceptical books by more than a thousand to one, we need a voice of sanity. This book introduces readers to mind-wrenching probability paradoxes, recent attacks on the Big Bang Theory, and Marianne Williamson’s success promoting The Course of Miracles , which is said to have been channelled by Jesus. Other columns address E-prime, a language that omits all forms of the verb ‘to be’; Norman Vincent Peale’s beliefs in the paranormal; repressed memory therapy; science blunders by famous writers; the influence of Transcendental Meditation on the career of Doug Henning; a critique of ‘Klingon’ and other artificial languages; and much more.