Debunks popular beliefs and reveals the facts about political, cultural, scientific, and technological misconceptions, addressing such topics as Napoleon's stat

This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they

Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey

Nontechnical survey helps improve ability to judge statistical evidence and to make better-informed decisions. Discusses common pitfalls: unrealistic estimates,