Massimo Pigliucci is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at City University of New York and editor-in-chief for the journal Philosophy & Theory in Biology. He has a doctorate in genetics, a PhD in botany, and a PhD in philosophy and is a fellow of AAAS and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. In addition to many technical articles in refereed journals, he is author or co-author of numerous books, including Evolution—The Extended Synthesis (2010), Making Sense of Evolution (2006), Phenotypic Integration (2004), and Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science (2002). The Society for the Study of Evolution awarded him its Dobzhansky Prize in 1997. The author’s reason for writing the book is found in the Introduction: ‘‘Accepting pseudoscientific untruths, or conversely rejecting scientific truths, has consequences for all of us, psychological, financial, and in terms of quality of life. Indeed, as we shall see, pseudoscience can literally kill people’’ (p. 1). In the first chapter, ‘‘Hard Science, Soft Science’’, various natural sciences are compared regarding their explanatory power and the extent to which they can predict the future or explain the past. An important criterion of an effective, valid science is the progress that is made in discovering and explaining natural phenomena. The lack of progress is a distinctive feature of pseudoscience. In the next chapter, ‘‘Almost Science’’, the author looks at a ‘‘...middle land of quasiscience populated by strange animals like evolutionary psychology, history, and even the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)’’ (p. 24). Even before these three examples of ‘‘almost science’’ are addressed, string theory in physics is critiqued as an area of inquiry so cutting edge that many observers consider it to be more like philosophy than science. Like multi-verse theory, string theory does not seem to make empirically testable hypotheses. Even though a theory may be logically/mathematically sound, it does not necessarily follow that it is empirically testable. SETI, unlike string theory and multi-verse theory, is testable but the likelihood of a positive test is very low so it is placed in the category of ‘‘almost science’’ as well. Evolutionary psychology is placed in the category of ‘‘almost science’’ by the author because ‘‘...the production of a variety of possible scenarios is the best one can hope for, and hard data are difficult to come by or interpret’’