Is it rational that the dead can communicate with the living and give sound advice on how they should live their lives? What about sticking pins into your body to free the flow of Chi energy and cure your illness? Or the bending of spoons using your mind alone? Is that rational? Richard Dawkins doesn’t think so, and feels it is his duty to expose those areas of belief that exist without scientific proof, yet manage to hold the nation under their spell. He will take on the world’s leading proponents in their field of expertise, meet the victims who have used them and expose the history of the movements – from the charlatans who have milked these practices to the experiments and testing that have failed to produce conclusive results.

首播于2006年1月9日，英国第四频道。在这部纪录片里，英国著名公共知识分子，生物学者Richard Dawkins向公众揭示了为什么他认为以基督教为代表的有组织一神论宗教正在成为文明与进步的桎梏。