Prologue: The Ironies of Misplaced Assumptions -- Part 1. The Way of Science. Monsters and Marvels ; Ahead of the Curve ; Marxism and Cell Biology ; The Messy Story behind the Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology ; The Dogma of "the" Scientific Method -- Part 2.Darwin, Evolution, and Society. Was Darwin a Social Darwinist? ; Social Un-Darwinism ; A More Fitting Analogy ; The Domesticated Gene -- Part 3. Making Mistakes. A Comedy of Scientific Errors ; Nobel Ideals and Noble Errors ; Celebrating Darwin's Errors -- Part 4. What Counts as Science. Science beyond Scientists ; Skepticism and the Architecture of Trust ; Science Con Artists -- Part 5. Naturalizing Cultural Values. Male, Female, and/or -? ; Monsters and the Tyranny of Normality ; To Be Human ; Genes R Us ; The Peppered Moths, A Study in Black and White -- Part 6. Myth-Conceptions. Alexander Fleming's "Eureka" Moment ; Round versus Wrinkled: Gregor Mendel as Icon ; William Harvey and Capillaries ; The Tragic Hero of Childbed Fever -- Part 7. Values and Biology Education. Respect for Life ; Hands-Off Dissection? ; Organisms, Modified, Genetically ; Close to Nature -- Epilogue: Challenging Sacred Bovines, Fostering Creativity -- Afterword for Educators: Sacred Bovines in the Classroom.