Necessity of thinking about thinking --
Neuroscience of belief --
Flaws and fabrications of memory --
Pattern recognition: seeing what's not there --
Our constructed reality --
Structure and purpose of argument --
Logic and logical fallacies --
Heuristics and cognitive biases --
Poor at probability: our innate innumeracy --
Toward better estimates of what's probably --
Culture and mass delusions --
Philosophy and presuppositions of science --
Science and the supernatural --
Varieties and quality of scientific evidence --
Great scientific blunders --
Science versus pseudoscience --
Many kinds of pseudoscience --
Trap of grand conspiracy thinking --
Denialism: rejecting science and history --
Marketing, scams, and urban legends --
Science, media, and democracy --
Experts and scientific consensus --
Critical thinking and science in your life.