A collection of Gardner's columns for Skeptical Inquirer magazine and reviews of books that deal with science, philosophy, theology, and the paranormal by such authors as Stephen Jay Gould, Joseph Campbell, and Freeman Dyson. Included are mind-wrenching probability paradoxes; a discussion of the success of Marianne Williamson in promoting A Course in Miracles , claimed to have been channeled by Jesus; and a column on E-Prime, a language that omits all forms of the verb "to be." No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.