What do Sherlock Holmes, a psychic parrot, the Apollo moon landings, a cat-tracking smartphone app, and Archie Gemmill’s goal against Holland in 1978 have to do with the current scientific understanding of humanity? Practically nothing. But they do all still feature in this wickedly funny takedown of the prevailing scientific orthodoxy as David Stark shows why the coming paradigm shift in science will have profound implications for both science itself and our understanding of ourselves and our place in the cosmos.