CONTENTS:

Preface: My teachers

1. The most precious thing

2. Science and hope

3. The man in the moon and the face on mars

4. Aliens

5. Spoofing and secrecy

6. Hallucinations

7. The demon-haunted world

8. On the distinction between true and false visions

9. Therapy

10. The dragon in my garage

11. The city of grief

12. The fine art of baloney detection

13. Obsessed with reality

14. Antiscience

15. Newton´s Sleep

16. When scientists know sin

17. The marriageos skepticism and wonder

18. The wind makes dust

19. No such thing as a dumb question

20. House on fire

21. The path to freedom

22. Significance junkies

23. Maxwell and the nerds

24. Science and witchcraft

25. Real patriots ask questions

Aknowledgments