The one essay that really stood out, and does not fit the above description, is Elizabeth F. Loftus's "Memory Faults and Fixes." If similar writings had been selected for the rest of the book I would have been more enthralled (and it wouldn't have taken me two months to complete). Here are a couple of quotes to whet your appetite and hopefully encourage you to click on the above link and read the entire essay.

For centuries we have had experience with people who come to court to testify and take the familiar solemn oath. In light of what I have learned about human memory, I propose a more realistic alternative: "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, or whatever it is you think you remember?" (p. 127)

For several decades, I and other psychological scientists have done research on memory distortion, specifically on showing how memories can be changed by things that we are told. Our memories are vulnerable to “post-event information”: to details, ideas, and suggestions that come along after an event has happened. People integrate new materials into their memory, modifying what they believe they personally experienced. When people combine information gathered at the time of an actual experience with new information acquired later, they form a smooth and seamless memory and thereafter have great difficulty telling which facts came from which time. (p. 130)

One of the more surprising inclusions was Gary Taubes's "What if it's all been a big fat lie?" The article reads like Taubes formed a conclusion beforehand and then selectively chose quotes and snippets of information to fit his conclusion. I'm surprised Dawkins included it, especially given some of the critiques that came out immediately after it published. E. O. Wilson, in fact, advocates the exact opposite position with regard to Atkins (although not mentioning the diet directly) in his essay at the end of the book.