[Doctor Stochastic]

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

One of the best books on science ever. I read this when it came out and I read all of Gardner's columns until he retired. No one else has ever made mathematics so much fun.

[RightWingAtheist]

Facts and Fallicies is one of the most important books in my personal life. I first read it when I was about eleven or twelve, and it had a profound effect on me, making me question a lot of the things I was being told. In its own way, it helped push me toward conservatism.