In an adventurous roundup of his Skeptical Inquirer columns as well as book reviews in various magazines and newspapers, Gardner takes a sharp hatchet to faith healers, theists, Norman Vincent Peale's ""`feel good' Christianity,"" Deepak Chopra's claims for Ayurvedic medicine, beliefs in lost sunken continents and in the curative power of ordinary water and magician Doug Henning's immersion in Transcendental Meditation. In his opinionated, outspoken collection, Gardner maintains that an epidemic of ""false memory syndrome"" is scarring misdirected patients as well as the family members they mistakenly accuse of having sexually molested them in childhood. He charges Joseph Campbell, scholar of myth, with racism, anti-Semitism and narrow-mindedness. He dismisses the New Age bestseller A Course in Miracles (said to have been dictated by Jesus) as a crude rehashin China. Many of these studies do not get the same level of press attention as those in North America or Europe. This special issue aspires to raise awareness of some of the cutting edge investigations now being pursued in China. For example, work on SFTSV in China is reported from Shandong University in Jinan; HFMD and MERS from the Institut Pasteur and Fudan University in Shanghai; and H7N9 and H5N1 influenza from the National Influenza Center, China CDC in Beijing, and Fudan University. Work on Ebola virus infection is also reported from the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong. However, the studies published here are also truly international and include lead investigators from Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia, USA), New York Blood Center, and the National School