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Table of Contents:
- The most precious thing
- Science and hope
- The man in the moon and the face on mars
- Aliens
- Spoofing and secrecy
- Hallucinations
- The demon-haunted world
- On the distinction between true and false visions
- Therapy
- The dragon in my garage
- The city of grief
- The fine art of baloney detection
- Obsessed with reality
- Antiscience
- Newton's sleep
- When scientists know sin
- The marriage of skepticism and wonder
- The wind makes dust
- No such things as a dumb question
- House on fire
- The path to freedom
- Significance junkies
- Maxwell and the nerds
- Science and witchcraft
- Real patriots ask questions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-448) and index.
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Physical Description:
- xviii, 457 pages ; 25 cm
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Call Numbers:
- Q175 .S215 1996
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ISBNs:
- 039453512X
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Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 95034076
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OCLC Numbers:
- 939553699
32855551 [Invalid]