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Contents<br />

Preface: My Teachers 1<br />

1 The Most Precious Thing 6<br />

2 Science and Hope 27<br />

3 The Man in the Moon and the Face on Mars 43<br />

4 Aliens 61<br />

5 Spoofing and Secrecy 77<br />

6 Hallucinations 93<br />

7 The Demon-Haunted World 108<br />

8 On the Distinction between True and False Visions 129<br />

9 Therapy 143<br />

10 The Dragon in My Garage 160<br />

11 The City of Grief 179<br />

12 The Fine Art of Baloney Detection 189<br />

13 Obsessed with Reality 207<br />

14 Antiscience 234<br />

15 Newton's Sleep 253<br />

16 When Scientists Know Sin 267<br />

17 The Marriage of Scepticism and Wonder 277<br />

18 The Wind Makes Dust 290<br />

19 No Such Thing as a Dumb Question 300<br />

20 House on Fire* 318<br />

21 The Path to Freedom* 333<br />

22 Significance Junkies 345<br />

23 Maxwell and The Nerds 355

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