Foreword: The rough corner -- Disclaimer: a warning – Introduction: hello from the odder side -- The importance of being a little batshit -- The weirdo who saved the world ;The theory of the un-provable -- The scientist who blew up everything ; The theory of the mad scientists -- The improbable tale of Tu Youyou ; The theory of ancient Chinese medicine -- The exorcism of Ringo Starr ; The theory of the devil in music – Rosemary Brown and the loungeroom of dead composers ; The theory of clairvoyance – Oh, the places you’ll go . . . Next ; The theory of last words – Novak Djokovic and the power of alien pyramid energy ; The theory of supernatural doping – The soft rock ; The theory of impossibilities – The university of rejected sciences -- Are authors stealing their ideas from the future? ; The theory of premonitions – Did time travelers sink the Titanic? ; The theory of the Titanic -- Where have all the public lice gone? ; The theory of endangered – Will we ever speak Dolphinese? ; The theory of animal communication – Should office plants be investigating murder cases? ; The theory of plant communication – Can watching Uri Geller on TV get you pregnant? ; The theory of magicians – Do ghost fly business class ; The theory of curses – Are we only here because of an alien picnic gone wrong? ; The theory of life on earth – Where can I get a good pint of alien moonshine? ; The theory of extraterrestrials -- You can’t have the theory of everything without the theory of everything else – How Isaac Newton hollowed out the Earth ; The theory of the hollow earth – How to discover the knobs of Mars ; The theory of NTOMARHIYDIONHGARNAYGNIAR – The president who stopped his own assassination ; The theory of destiny – The man who didn’t fall to earth ; The theory of incredible luck – The secret of world domination ; The theory of unpalatability – The unpredictable world of Nostradamus ; The theory of predictions – An arse wrinkle in time ; The theory of unlikely oracles – A creationist on the moon ; The theory of the Apollo Moon Landings ; Footprints of the charlatans ; The theory of unexpected heroes – Conclusion: We can be weirdos.