He proclaims that instead of this dictatory attitude scientists should apply skepticism, or a kind of agnostic principle, when faced with new ideas.

"[citation needed] The book's subtitle Irrational Rationalism and Citadel of Science, summarizes its topics; It seems to me that existence - at this point I have doubts about 'the' 'universe' - is a lot like a Rorschach ink-blot.

The Citadel is the author's term for the military-industrial complex that he claims funds mainstream science and is the source of its bias.

Wilson opines that the implications of Aspect's proof include that magic is possible, and that "the sum total of all minds is one".

[citation needed] On the topic, he states, [... the] Scientific Method (SM) [is] the alleged source of the certitude of those I call the New Idolators.

Wilson draws on a large number of accounts of recorded events said to be "paranormal" but dismissed by materialist science as mass hallucination, e.g. the visions in Fátima, Portugal, and various UFO sightings.

The book concludes with the idea which he claims Schrödinger supported, that the sum total of all minds is one, and that individual brains are best understood as local receivers, of an overall transmission which is always everywhere.

Lippard listed inaccuracies about the Esperanza Stone, fish falling from the sky and the alleged Mars effect.

She concluded with suggesting a merging of the views of Robert Anton Wilson and Martin Gardner as a possible new approach to science.

All that's happening is that some doctrines and methods are being criticized-at the worst, ridiculed-in magazines like The Skeptical Inquirer with circulations of a few tens of thousands.