This is basically a look at how we decide what to believe in, and what not to believe in, by way of a wander around with a cast of characters who believe in all kinds of different things: it features homeopaths and the skeptics who oppose them, holocaust deniers and people who think they suffered satanic abuse as children among others. It’s a very personal look at things by the author, who bravely pulls up his own ‘story’ of his life as an example in places - I’m not sure I’d be willing to do the same though I do agree that one of the traits that makes us human is that we try to make coherent stories of everything - and it’s a better book for the personalisation aspect. In places I thought it got bogged down in the details but overall it was well worth the read.