In order to determine our worldview and make informed decisions that affect our lives, we, among other things, need to form our attitude to the statements of experts and the results of scientific research. "Scientists lie and hide everything" or "scientists have proven, so it is"? Between these two extremes lies a huge field of ambiguity, and Stuart Ritchie's book helps us navigate it, find our position. In imaginative examples, Ritchie describes systemic problems in the public reporting of scientific papers and the design of scientific activity itself, allowing a critical rethink of everything we have read, watched and listened to about science so far. However, it does not take away our hopes for progress at all - on the contrary, we learn a lot about what is being done and what else can be done to ensure that confidence in the work of scientists is strengthened on a more reliable and sustainable basis.