A three-books-in-one essay series — epistemological primer, targeted debunking, and pop-science survey — written in the Galilean Dialogue tradition: satire in the service of scientific reasoning. Volume 2 of the Extended Principia Humanica. Follows The Hitchhiker's Guide To The New Paradigm in suggested reading order.

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Table Of Contents

Preface: Galileo's Dialogues, or Shitposting In The Name Of Science Has A Long And Hallowed History

Part 1: Introduction, or If Not Me, Who? If Not Now, When?

• Why This Matters, or Why Scientists Should Apologize for Terrence Howard
• A Bit More About My Personal Journey, or Damnit, I Didn't Spend A Decade Of My Life And Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars On My Education To Let This Shit Happen On My Watch

Part 2: A Brief History of Scientific And Mathematical Charlatanism

• Euler, or You Mean That Guy Who Mathematically "Proved" That God Exists?
• There Have Always Been Mathematical Cranks, They Just Don't Usually Go On Joe Rogan, or No, You Can't Sum Two Even Numbers To Get An Odd Number, No Matter How Long Your Self Published Book Is
• The Love/Hate Relationship Between Science And Pseudoscience, Or Yes, Your Little Brother Is Embarrassing And Annoying, Yes You Have To Take Him Everywhere You Go, No, You Can't Kill Him
• Richard Feynman's Warning To Us All, or Surely You Must Help Us Mr. Feynman, You're Our Only Hope
• For Those Who Don't Know Richard Feynman, or You Mean That Guy Who Played Bongos Naked On The Roof Of The Physics Building At Caltech In The Sixties?
• The Difference Between Science And Science Cults, or No, Tesla Was Not A Deity, Sorry
• Why Bad Information Spreads Faster Than Good Information, or Scientists Are Actually Superheroes, not Supervillains
• The Theorem Of Beyes: Your Very Own "Mathemagical" BS Detector, or No, Not All Crazy Ideas Are Correct, Or Even Most Of Them

Part 3: Calling A Fraud A Fraud

• Terrence Howard Walks Into A Bar, or That Ain't Rain, Bro
• Ignore The Paranoid Manic Schizophrenic Narcissist Behind The Curtain, or Yes, Terrence Howard Is Certifiably Batshit Crazy, And Yes, It Actually Does Matter