13 THINGS THAT DON'T MAKE SENSE (Book Review) -Part I

This fine book: "13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries Of Our Time" by Michael Brooks contains 13 chapters, acknowledgements, Notes and Sources, and an Index.

Chapter 1: The Missing Universe referring to the only 4% of the universe we can account for.
Chapter 2: "The Pioneer Anomaly" refers to the two spacecraft that have now left the solar system and are
     mysteriously veering off course flouting the laws of physics.*
Chapter 3: "Varying Constants: that are Destabilizing our view of the
     Universe.
Chapter 4: "Cold Fusion" Nuclear Energy without the drama.
Chapter 5: "Life" Are you more than just a bag of chemicals.
Chapter 6: "Viking" NASA scientists found evidence for life on Mars, then they changed their minds.
Chapter 7: "The Wow! Signal" Has ET already been in touch?
Chapter 8: "A Giant Virus" It's a freak that could rewrite the story of
     life.
Chapter 9: "Death" Evolution's problem with self-destruction.
Chapter 10: "Sex" There are better ways to reproduce.
Chapter 11: "Free Will" Your decisions are not your own.
Chapter 12: "The Placebo Effect"  Who's being deceived.
Chapter 13: "Homeopathy" It's patently absurd, so why won't it go
     away.

The entire book was interesting, but I particularly liked Chapter's 1, 2, 9 and 13.

Something that made chapters 1 and 2 interesting to me is that I actually knew several of the people mentioned such as Vera Rubin of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, and the curmudgeonly Fritz Zwiki of the California Institute of Technology (or Caltech where I was a graduate student) .  And then there was the handsome Nobel Prize winner Richard Fineman, also of Caltech.

Part II of this review concerns people mentioned in the book that I knew.**  Part III concerns The Placebo Effect and Homeopathy ***.

* Material enclosed in italics are direct quotes from the titles of the chapters.
** http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2015/06/13-things-that-dont-make-sense-book_27.html
*** http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2015/06/13-things-that-dont-make-sense-book_29.html