Alternative Science

by Chad Eastwood

Join Tom—full-time atheist, part-time skeptic, and reluctant adult—as he pokes his nose into Alternative Science, a mysterious organization dedicated to pseudoscience, questionable experiments, and possibly the world’s rudest HR department. (Or is it all perfectly legitimate? Tom certainly hopes not.)

If Douglas Adams and William Blake were fused in a cosmic accident and reincarnated as a mildly prophetic space cephalopod, it would still have absolutely nothing to do with the literary quality of this book. However, if you enjoy science fiction, philosophy, and modern Irish comedy shaken together like a pint you definitely shouldn’t have ordered—think Philip K. Dick wandering into a Roddy Doyle scene—then this book is for you.

But hey—if you’d prefer to spend your evening guzzling peyote smoothies and massaging medicinal horse-flu syrup into your thighs, that is equally acceptable.

So leave your straw men at home, deposit your cognitive dissonance in the bin where it belongs, and step into a world of “serious” scientific inquiry. See if you can get behind the sacred motto of Alternative

“We shall not let the facts stand in the way of the truth.”

311 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 19, 2025

About the author

Chad is a lone wolf. He is a loose cannon. He is a fly in the ointment. He is the 29th of February. He is a complete curveball. He is the square root of minus one. He is the butterfly effect. He’s when you think there’s one more step on the stairs in the dark but there isn’t. He’s midnight mass. He’s a universal constant. He’s a cliff in a storm. He’s an irregular playing field. He’s the joker of the pack. He’s how long a piece of string is. He’s the root cause. He’s a trick hip. He’s a drop in the ocean. He’s the letter Q. He’s the third eye. He’s the seventh element. He’s the tenth cloud. He’s the thirteenth apostle. He’s the decline and fall. He’s the opposable thumb. He’s the square of the distance between two points. He’s the rapture. He’s an interview with himself. He’s a maverick, a pioneer, a martyr, a hermit, a fool, an emperor, a lucky break, an ill-informed decision, a fluke, a fine mess, a snowball, a pin-drop, and a babbling brook.