| Math and Science Will Tell You the Truth | p. 5 |
| The Challenger Disaster | |
| How Mathematicians Made Sure a Trial was Fair | |
| How Dr. Snow Used Statistics to Stop a Cholera Epidemic | |
| The Tragic Death of Aaliyah | |
| How the Universe Revealed its Truths Through Mathematics | |
| Your Mind can be Fooled (Counterintuitive Thinking) | p. 29 |
| The Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel Disaster | |
| The Game Show Dilemma | |
| The Strange World of Average Speed | |
| The Stranded Astronaut Problem | |
| Occam's Razor | p. 49 |
| Clever Hans | |
| Cold Fusion | |
| Big Foot | |
| Crop Circles | |
| Mistakes and Frustration are a Part of Learning and a Part of Life | p. 67 |
| How Nature Deals With Mistakes | |
| The Simple Mistake that Destroyed the Mars Climate Orbiter | |
| The Overloaded Bridge | |
| Apollo 13--Triumph from Tragedy | |
| It is Important to Experience Failure and Frustration | |
| Three Mile Island Accident | |
| The Hubble Telescope | |
| It is Important to Keep an Open Mind | p. 96 |
| Sister Elizabeth Kenny and her Treatment for Polio | |
| Dr. Semmelweis and Puerperal Fever | |
| Dr. Goldberger and Pellagra | |
| The Shocking Discovery About Ulcers | |
| It is Important to Maintain a Healthy Skepticism | p. 116 |
| Psychic Surgery | |
| The Invention Company | |
| Facilitated Communication | |
| The Anti-Vaccination Movement | |
| The Simple Lie-Detector Test | |
| Don't be Fooled by Statistics | p. 135 |
| Painting Bull's-eyes Around Arrows | |
| The Doctors Who were Fooled | |
| The Police Chief | |
| The Deceptive Car Advertisement | |
| You Must Know the Difference Between Cause and Correlation | p. 159 |
| The Bendectin Nightmare | |
| Parent-Teacher Conferences | |
| The Bermuda Triangle | |
| Music and High Achievement | |
| How Tobacco Companies Tried to Confuse Cause and Correlation | |
| Ethical Decision Making | p. 180 |
| The Exploding Gas Tank | |
| Thalidomide and Birth Defects | |
| The Unethical Stuttering Experiment | |
| How Ethical Decision-Making Saved a Company | |
| The Building that Almost Tipped Over | |
| The Radium Girls | |
| Bias is Everywhere | p. 202 |
| Are Some Knee Surgeries Useless? | |
| How Biased Sampling Led to a Wrong Prediction | |
| The Dramatic Discovery that Eliminated Bias | |
| Answers | p. 216 |
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