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Roberts, Julia, xxiii

Roddenberry, Gene, xxxvi, 229–35, 240

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 203

Rosa, Emily, xxi–xxviii, xxvii

Ross, Hugh, 177, 196

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 58

Rowland, Ian, 4, 6, 7, 13

RU-486 (mifepristone), 105

Ruse, Michael, 178, 188, 189, 243, 262

Russell, Bertrand, 58

Russwurm, John, 210

Rutherford, Ernest, 214

Sagan, Carl, 5, 40, 43, 44, 64, 241–45

Salley, Columbus, 209

Sanger, Margaret, 203

Sarich, Vince, xxx

Saturn, rings of, 267

Schwarz, Jack, 92

science anecdotes vs., 93

counterfactual thinking and, 161–62

education and, 195–97

heresies of, 38–53

history of, Gould and, 244, 250, 256–68, 258

historial vs. experimental, xxix

knowledge vs. perception and, xii–xxxi

logic and probabilities of, 62

most influential events in, 218–24

scientific method and, 75–76, 221, 223

sports psychology and, 93–94, 99–100

spin-doctoring of, xxxii–xxxiii, 82–87

Science and Earth History’ (Strahler), 178

science fiction, xxxvi. See also Star Trek series

Science of Good and Evil, The (Shermer), 23–24, 58

Science on Trial (Angell), xxv

Scientology, 59–60

Scopes trial, 174, 199

Scott, Eugenie, 178, 195

Secret Origins of the Bible, The (Callahan), 55

Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins), 178

self-organized criticality (self-organization), 140–45, 183, 191

serotonin, 129

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), 181

seven deadly sins, 122

sex, 122–23

Shakespeare, William, 252

Shanks, Niall, 178

Shannon, Claude, 193

“Sharp-Eyed Lynx, Outfoxed by Nature, The” (Gould), 267

Shaw, George Bernard, 217

Sherman, William Tecumseh, 156

Shermer, Kim Ziel, 61, 65, 107

Shockley, William Bradford, 223

Sholes, Christopher Latham, 139, 148, 149

silicon breast implants, xxiii–xxv

simplexity, 142

Simpson, Bart, 204

Six Great Ideas (Adler), 211

Skeptic (journal), xxviii, xxxii, 3, 37, 55, 61, 64–65

Skeptical Inquirer (journal), 61

skepticism, xxxi, xxxii, 19–40, 54–68, 143

Skeptics Society, xxxii, 32, 34, 54–55, 61, 80–81

skeptikos, 37, 58

sky, color of, 40

Smith, John Maynard, 243, 262

Smolin, Lee, 41–42

social facilitation theory, 94, 95

sociobiology 79, 80, 82

Socrates, 58, 266

Soderbergh, Steven, xxiii

Sound of Thunder, A (Bradbury), 153–55

Soviet Union, German invasion of, 160

space travel, 43–44

Special Creationism, 196

speciation, 131, 182

Spielberg, Steven, 204

spinal cord, xxxii, 50–52

“Spin Doctoring Darwin” (Gould), 260

sports psychology, 91–100

Stalin, Josef, 205

Star Trek series, xxxvi, 41, 43, 76, 229–40

statistics, 62, 97–98, 205

stem cell research, 51–52

Stengel, Richard, 201

Stewart, Ian, 135, 142, 143

stock market, 141, 143–44

Story of Civilization, The (Durant), 214

Stradanus, Johannes, 206, 207

Strahler, Arthur, 178

stress, 49, 95, 144

Structure of Evolutionary Theory, The (Gould), 242

Sullivan, A. S., 263

Sulloway, Frank J., xxii, 5, 93, 188, 199, 258–59

supernaturalism, 180–81, 183

superstition, 96

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman (Leighton and Feynman), 25

Sweeney, Julia, 25

Sweeney, Terrance, 232

Symons, Donald, 82

Syntopieon, 211

Szasz, Thomas, 100

Tacitus, 228

TAF (tumor angiogenesis factor), 103

Tahiti, 113–14, 116, 120–25

Tarot cards, 3, 5, 8–11

Tattersall, Ian, 167, 168

Taub, Louis, 140

Tavris, Carol, 100, 104

temozolomide, 105, 106

Templeton Prize, 189–90

Ten Commandments, 57

Tennessee Butler Act (1924), 174–75

Teresa, Mother, xviii, xxi

Theistic Evolution (TE), 197

theory-data theme, 7, 87, 89, 258, 259–60, 265, 267–68

Therapeutic Touch (TT), xxi–xxviii, xxvii

thermovents, ocean bottom, 46

thioredoxin, 192–93

Third Wave, The (Toffler), 212

“This View of Life” (Gould column), 242

Thomas Aquinas, 214

Thorne, Kip, 43–44

thought, language and, 168

thought experiments, 161, 162, 235–36

thrombin, 184

Tierney, Patrick, 69–79, 82, 83, 85–87, 88