The doomsday cult described in When Prophecy Fails The MMR vaccine controversy and Andrew Wakefield Conflict escalation in marriage and intergroup relations Day care sex abuse hysteria, alien abduction memories, and false memory syndrome Statements by Al Campanis and Mel Gibson justifying racism Confabulation of autobiographical memory False certainty in pseudoscience Self-justification and conflict of interest in medicine and politics George W. Bush and the Iraq War Justification of aggression, war, and torture Criminal interrogation, the pseudoscientific Reid technique, and false confessions Trials, capital punishment, police perjury, and miscarriage of justice Oprah Winfrey and her involvement in the James Frey controversy Carol Dweck's research on mistakes and learning