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The Full Bibliography: Every Source Behind Everybody's Science, by Chapter

Compiled July 2026 — sources current as of the book's most recent working draft

Every source cited in Everybody's Science, gathered here in one place and organized the way the book itself is organized — by Part, then by chapter within each Part. Seven chapters carry their own “Exact sources, for citation” note inside the book itself; every one of those seven blocks is reproduced here in full, verified directly against the chapter text rather than assumed. The remaining nine chapters' entries compile the authors, studies, and reports already named in that chapter's own prose, verified against the original publication wherever the book didn't already spell out a full citation.

One standard was held to throughout: nothing here was invented. Where a claim in the manuscript wasn't specific enough to trace to a real, checkable source, it was either replaced with a properly sourced figure or flagged rather than guessed at. One item below still carries that flag — see Chapter 15. Wherever a DOI, stable URL, ISBN, or official record exists for a source, it's included so a reader can go find the thing itself — also verified individually, never guessed. Where no single stable link exists (an 1854 lecture, a general category of agency reporting), that's said plainly instead of a fabricated one standing in for it.

A Short Reading List — Books Mentioned in the Book

Beyond the sources below, Everybody's Science also names about thirty other books directly — in passing, as a formative memoir, a novel, or a case someone else made first. Gathered here as a short, standalone list rather than folded into the chapter-by-chapter bibliography, in case a reader wants a place to go next. Alphabetical by author; the chapter noted is where the book is named in the text.

  1. Baker, Theo. How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University. Penguin Press, 2026. ISBN 978-0-593-83283-7 · Ch. 13, 16
  2. Boden, Margaret A. The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990 (2nd ed., Routledge, 2004). ISBN 978-0-297-82069-7 (1990) · Ch. 5
  3. Bush, Vannevar. Science, The Endless Frontier. 1945. Internet Archive: archive.org/details/scienceendlessfr00unit_0 · Ch. 13
  4. de Kruif, Paul. Microbe Hunters. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. predates ISBN; Dover reprint ISBN 978-0-486-84995-9 · Ch. 7
  5. Dewey, John. Reconstruction in Philosophy. Henry Holt, 1920. public domain · Ch. 12
  6. Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Viking, 2005. ISBN 978-0-14-303655-5 · Ch. 13, companion reading
  7. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W.W. Norton, 1997. ISBN 978-0-393-03891-0 · Ch. 10
  8. Dweck, Carol S. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Random House, 2006. ISBN 978-1-4000-6275-1 · Ch. 4
  9. Einstein, Albert. Out of My Later Years. Philosophical Library, 1950. predates ISBN; free text: archive.org/details/outofmylateryear00eins · Prologue
  10. Fleck, Ludwik. Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. University of Chicago Press, 1979 (English translation). ISBN 978-0-226-25324-4 · Ch. 7
  11. Grant, Adam. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know. Viking, 2021. ISBN 978-1-9848-7810-6 · Ch. 6, 11, 12
  12. Jahren, Hope. Lab Girl. Knopf, 2016. ISBN 978-1-101-87493-6 · Ch. 6
  13. Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. 1781. public domain; standard modern ed.: Cambridge UP, trans. Guyer & Wood, 1998, ISBN 978-0-521-35302-8 · Ch. 12
  14. Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2013. ISBN 978-1-57131-335-5 · Prologue
  15. Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. Hutchinson, 1964. predates ISBN · Ch. 5
  16. Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. predates ISBN; 1926 Pulitzer Prize (declined) · Ch. 7
  17. Maclean, Norman. Young Men and Fire. University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-226-50062-1 · Ch. 12
  18. Nichols, John. The Milagro Beanfield War. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. Ch. 1
  19. Oreskes, Naomi. Why Trust Science? Princeton University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-691-17900-1 · Ch. 11, 12
  20. Oreskes, Naomi, and Erik M. Conway. Merchants of Doubt. Bloomsbury Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-59691-610-4 · Ch. 11
  21. Pauling, Linus. The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Cornell University Press, 1939. predates ISBN; current CUP ed. ISBN 978-0-8014-0333-0 · Ch. 8
  22. Popper, Karl. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Hutchinson, 1959 (English translation). predates ISBN; Routledge Classics ed. ISBN 978-0-415-27844-7 · Ch. 7
  23. Quammen, David. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. W.W. Norton, 2012. ISBN 978-0-393-06680-7 · Ch. 10
  24. Sacks, Oliver. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. Knopf, 2001. ISBN 978-0-375-40448-1 · Ch. 1
  25. Sen, Amartya. The Idea of Justice. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-03613-0 · Ch. 12
  26. Sheldrake, Merlin. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Random House, 2020. ISBN 978-0-525-51031-4 · Ch. 2
  27. Stokes, Donald E. Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. Brookings Institution Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-8157-8177-6 · Ch. 7
  28. Thiel, Peter, with Blake Masters. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Crown Business, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8041-3929-8 · Ch. 5
  29. Westover, Tara. Educated: A Memoir. Random House, 2018. ISBN 978-0-399-59050-4 · Prologue
Front Matter Prologue
Part I · Wonder Ch. 1Ch. 2Ch. 3
Part II · How Breakthroughs Happen Ch. 4Ch. 5Ch. 6Ch. 7
Part III · The Science That Explains Us Ch. 8Ch. 9Ch. 10
Part IV · Science, Challenged Ch. 11Ch. 12Ch. 13
Part V · The Path Forward Ch. 14Ch. 15Ch. 16

Prologue — “Everybody's Science”

  1. Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2013. ISBN 978-1-57131-335-5
  2. Einstein, Albert. Out of My Later Years. Philosophical Library, 1950. free text: archive.org/details/outofmylateryear00eins
  3. Westover, Tara. Educated: A Memoir. Random House, 2018. ISBN 978-0-399-59050-4

Part I — Wonder

Ch. 1 — “A Farm Boy's Laboratory”

  1. Kramnik, I., Dietrich, W.F., Demant, P., and Bloom, B.R. “Genetic control of resistance to experimental infection with virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.150227197
  2. Lax, A., et al. “The value of specific MRI features in the evaluation of suspected placental invasion.” Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2007. DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.10.007
  3. Sacks, Oliver. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. Knopf, 2001. ISBN 978-0-375-40448-1
  4. Nichols, John. The Milagro Beanfield War. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. no verified ISBN for this printing
  5. Blue Gold: World Water Wars. Directed by Sam Bozzo, 2008. IMDb: imdb.com/title/tt1137439
  6. National Center for Education Statistics. School Pulse Panel: “Most U.S. Public Elementary and Secondary Schools Faced Hiring Challenges for the Start of the 2024–25 Academic Year.” Press release, October 17, 2024. nces.ed.gov/whatsnew/press_releases/10_17_2024.asp

Ch. 2 — “All Six Kingdoms in a Virginia Streambank”

  1. Sheldrake, Merlin. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Random House, 2020. ISBN 978-0-525-51031-4
  2. Adamala, K., et al. “Confronting risks of mirror life.” Science, December 2024. DOI: 10.1126/science.ads9158
  3. McKeon, L.A., Fagre, D.B., and Peitzsch, E.H. “Glaciers of Glacier National Park Repeat Photography Collection.” U.S. Geological Survey data release, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9CQDA7S
  4. Rabus, B.T., and Echelmeyer, K.A. “The Mass Balance of McCall Glacier, Brooks Range, Alaska, U.S.A.: Its Regional Relevance and Implications for Climate Change in the Arctic.” Journal of Glaciology, 44(147), 1998, pp. 333–351. no DOI issued; stable text: Cambridge Core

Ch. 3 — “The Edge of the World”

  1. Miller, S.L. “A Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions.” Science, 1953. DOI: 10.1126/science.117.3046.528
  2. Bennett, M.R., et al. “Evidence of Humans in North America During the Last Glacial Maximum.” Science 373, 2021. DOI: 10.1126/science.abg7586
  3. Berger, L.R., Hawks, J., et al. “Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi.” eLife, 2023. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.89106 (peer-reviewed version of record published 2025; the chapter cites the 2023 preprint)

Part II — How Breakthroughs Happen

Ch. 4 — “The Master Fisherman Problem”

  1. Kerr, N.L. “HARKing: Hypothesizing After the Results are Known.” Personality and Social Psychology Review, 1998. DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0203_4
  2. Dweck, Carol S. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Random House, 2006. ISBN 978-1-4000-6275-1

Ch. 5 — “Thinking Like an Inventor: Creativity, Innovation, and Teams in Science”

  1. Pasteur, Louis. Lecture, University of Lille, 1854 (“chance favors only the prepared mind”). no single archived transcript verified
  2. Boden, Margaret A. The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990 (2nd ed., Routledge, 2004). ISBN 978-0-297-82069-7 (1990)
  3. Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. Hutchinson, 1964. predates ISBN
  4. Thiel, Peter, with Blake Masters. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Crown Business, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8041-3929-8
  5. McClintock, Barbara. “Chromosome Organization and Genic Expression.” Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 1951. DOI: 10.1101/SQB.1951.016.01.004
  6. Jacobsen, Kathryn, et al. (Reid Schwebach among seventeen co-authors). “Lessons from the Ebola Outbreak: Action Items for Emerging Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response.” EcoHealth, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-016-1100-5 · free text: PMC7087787

Ch. 6 — “Racing a Pandemic”

  1. Jahren, Hope. Lab Girl. Knopf, 2016. ISBN 978-1-101-87493-6
  2. Grant, Adam. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know. Viking, 2021. ISBN 978-1-9848-7810-6
  3. Karikó, K., Buckstein, M., Ni, H., and Weissman, D. “Suppression of RNA Recognition by Toll-like Receptors: The Impact of Nucleoside Modification and the Evolutionary Origin of RNA.” Immunity, 2005. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2005.06.008
  4. Karikó, Katalin, and Drew Weissman. 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/summary
  5. Calmette, L., and Guérin, C. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, first human dose July 18, 1921, Institut Pasteur. no single primary archival document confirmed; see “BCG turns 100,” PMC8159679, and Institut Pasteur's own retrospective
  6. Mullis, Kary. Invention of PCR, 1983. no single 1983 paper exists; see nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1993/mullis/facts

Ch. 7 — “Science Argues With Itself on Purpose”

Reproduced in full from the chapter's own “Exact sources, for citation” note.

  1. Open Science Collaboration. “Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science.” Science, 2015. DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4716
  2. Ioannidis, John P. A. “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.” PLOS Medicine, 2005. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
  3. Simmons, Joseph P., Leif D. Nelson, and Uri Simonsohn. “False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant.” Psychological Science, 2011 — source for “p-hacking” and the preregistration/registered-reports response. DOI: 10.1177/0956797611417632
  4. Popper, Karl. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. 1959. Hutchinson, 1959 (Eng. trans.); Routledge Classics ed. ISBN 978-0-415-27844-7
  5. Fleck, Ludwik. Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. 1935. Eng. trans., University of Chicago Press, 1979, ISBN 978-0-226-25324-4
  6. Stokes, Donald E. Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. 1997 — source for the Pasteur's Quadrant breakout box and diagram. Brookings Institution Press, ISBN 978-0-8157-8177-6

Also named directly in the chapter's narrative, outside the reproduced note above:

  1. de Kruif, Paul. Microbe Hunters. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. predates ISBN; Dover reprint ISBN 978-0-486-84995-9
  2. Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. predates ISBN; 1926 Pulitzer Prize (declined)

Part III — The Science That Explains Us

Ch. 8 — “The Chemistry of an Ordinary Morning”

  1. Pauling, Linus. The Nature of the Chemical Bond. 1939. Cornell University Press; predates ISBN, current ed. ISBN 978-0-8014-0333-0

Ch. 9 — “Warming Seas, Changing Coasts”

Reproduced in full from the chapter's own “Exact sources, for citation” note (water-scarcity section).

  1. New Mexico Office of the State Engineer. Water-use-by-category technical reports (irrigated agriculture at 76–79% of total withdrawals, 1990–2015). ose.nm.gov/Library/tech_reports.php
  2. New Mexico Environment Department and Office of the State Engineer. Domestic-well metering guidance (~13% of New Mexicans on private wells, generally unmetered). no single stable document link confirmed
  3. NMSA 1978 §§ 72-12-1, 72-12-8 (domestic-use applications; water-right forfeiture after four years' non-use). §72-12-1 · §72-12-8 (Justia mirror of the official NM statute)
  4. U.S. Geological Survey and NOAA Climate.gov. Reporting on Ogallala Aquifer recharge rates and depletion. general agency reporting; no single document link confirmed
  5. Santa Fe New Mexican. “Concern simmers in Estancia Basin over water trucked to SunZia wind farms.” 2026 — source of the SunZia dust-suppression water-transfer figures. no stable public link confirmed
  6. Pattern Energy / SunZia Wind project materials (3.5 GW, 900+ turbines, construction and permanent job figures). no single document link confirmed
  7. CNN and Circle of Blue reporting on Colorado River reservoir levels, July 2026 (Lake Powell 23% full, Lake Mead 27% full). no single document link confirmed
  8. Office of the Governor of New Mexico and Inside Climate News/High Country News reporting on the U.S. Supreme Court's May 2026 Rio Grande Compact settlement (Texas v. New Mexico, 18,200 acre-feet/year reduction over ten years). Supreme Court docket No. 141, Orig.: supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/22o141.html
  9. Office of the Governor of New Mexico. Strategic Water Supply and brackish-groundwater desalination program ($500 million investment, 100,000 acre-feet/year goal by 2028). env.nm.gov/strategic-water-supply
  10. Blue Gold: World Water Wars (dir. Sam Bozzo, 2008, based on Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke's book) — referenced for its thesis (future conflict over water rather than oil) rather than as a data source. IMDb: imdb.com/title/tt1137439

Ch. 10 — “Infectious Disease Shaped Us”

  1. Janeway, Charles A., Jr. Immunobiology. multiple editions/publishers (Garland Science); no single edition specified in the text
  2. Janeway, Charles A., Jr. “Approaching the Asymptote? Evolution and Revolution in Immunology.” Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 1989. DOI: 10.1101/SQB.1989.054.01.003
  3. Hoffmann, Jules, and Bruce Beutler. 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2011/summary
  4. Sabeti, P.C., et al. “Detecting recent positive selection in the human genome from haplotype structure.” Nature, 2002. DOI: 10.1038/nature01140
  5. Quammen, David. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. 2012. W.W. Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-06680-7
  6. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. 1997. W.W. Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-03891-0
  7. NOVA scienceNOW. “Meet the Musical Geneticist.” PBS. no single stable episode link confirmed
  8. TIME. “Person of the Year” 2014, “The Ebola Fighters.” no single stable link confirmed
  9. Stockmann, C., Ampofo, K., Killpack, J., et al. “Procalcitonin Accurately Identifies Hospitalized Children With Low Risk of Bacterial Community-Acquired Pneumonia.” Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 7(1), 2018, pp. 46–53. DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piw091

Part IV — Science, Challenged

Ch. 11 — “A World Competing on Truth”

Reproduced in full from the chapter's own “Exact sources, for citation” note.

  1. Douglas, Karen M., Robbie M. Sutton, and Aleksandra Cichocka. “The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories.” Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2017. DOI: 10.1177/0963721417718261
  2. Douglas, Karen M. “Understanding Conspiracy Theories.” Political Psychology, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/pops.12568
  3. Kagan-Kans, Dan. “The Rise of ‘Conspiracy Physics.’” Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2025. wsj.com (subscription required)
  4. Baker, Katie J.M. “The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory.” The New York Times, December 7, 2025. nytimes.com (subscription required)
  5. Grant, Adam. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know. 2021. Viking, ISBN 978-1-9848-7810-6
  6. Tetlock, Philip E. “Social Functionalist Frameworks for Judgment and Choice: Intuitive Politicians, Theologians, and Prosecutors.” Psychological Review, 2002 — origin of three of the four mindsets Grant adds “scientist” to. DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.109.3.451
  7. Séralini, G.-E., et al. “Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize.” Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2012 (retracted 2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.08.005
  8. Séralini, G.-E., et al. “Republished study: long-term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize.” Environmental Sciences Europe, 2014 (not independently peer-reviewed). DOI: 10.1186/s12302-014-0014-5
  9. Marshall, Barry J., and J. Robin Warren. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2005, “for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.” nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2005/summary
  10. Oreskes, Naomi, and Erik M. Conway. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Bloomsbury Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-59691-610-4
  11. Kahan, Dan M., Donald Braman, John Gastil, Paul Slovic, and C.K. Mertz. “Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White-Male Effect in Risk Perception.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2007. DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-1461.2007.00097.x
  12. Oreskes, Naomi. Why Trust Science? Princeton University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-691-17900-1
  13. Petty, Richard E., and John T. Cacioppo. “The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion.” Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 19, 1986 — central-route and peripheral-route entry points in the concept-map diagram. DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60214-2

Ch. 12 — “The Shroud of Misinformation”

Reproduced in full from the chapter's own “Exact sources, for citation” note.

  1. Oreskes, Naomi. Why Trust Science? Princeton University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-691-17900-1
  2. Pew Research Center. “Americans' Trust in Scientists and Views of Science.” November 2023, with 2024–2025 follow-up tracking. pewresearch.org
  3. Sen, Amartya. The Idea of Justice. Harvard University Press/Belknap Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-03613-0
  4. Peirce, Charles Sanders. “How to Make Our Ideas Clear.” Popular Science Monthly, 1878. public domain; text: Wikisource
  5. Dewey, John. Reconstruction in Philosophy. 1920. public domain; text: archive.org/details/reconstructionin00deweuoft
  6. Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. 1781 — source of “regulative ideal.” public domain; standard modern ed.: Cambridge UP, ISBN 978-0-521-35302-8
  7. Valentini, Laura. “A Paradigm Shift in Theorizing About Justice? A Critique of Sen.” Economics & Philosophy, 27(3), 2011. DOI: 10.1017/S0266267111000228
  8. Biondo, Francesco. “Comparative vs. Transcendental Approaches to Justice: A Misleading Dichotomy in Sen's The Idea of Justice.” Ratio Juris, 25(4), 2012. DOI verification pending; volume/issue corrected from 25(2) after direct check against the journal's table of contents
  9. Ege, Ragip, Herrade Igersheim, and Charlotte Le Chapelain. “Transcendental vs. comparative approaches to justice: a reappraisal of Sen's dichotomy.” The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 23(4), 2016. DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2014.916734
  10. Zimmermann, Bénédicte. “Pragmatism and the Capability Approach.” European Journal of Social Theory, 2006. DOI: 10.1177/1368431006073014
  11. Grant, Adam. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know. 2021 — the Wagner Dodge/Mann Gulch “escape fire” story. Viking, ISBN 978-1-9848-7810-6
  12. Maclean, Norman. Young Men and Fire. 1992 — original source of the Mann Gulch story. University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-50062-1
  13. National Wildfire Coordinating Group. Staff-ride materials on the Mann Gulch fire, on Harry Gisborne's investigation and its role in the ten Standard Firefighting Orders. no single stable document link confirmed
  14. Leopold, A. Starker, et al. “Wildlife Management in the National Parks” (the Leopold Report). 1963. full text: npshistory.com/publications/wildlife/leopold-1963.pdf
  15. Forest History Society. “U.S. Forest Service Fire Suppression” — on the 1935 “10 a.m. policy” and its 1978 retirement. no single stable document link confirmed
  16. Posner, George J., Kenneth A. Strike, Peter W. Hewson, and William A. Gertzog. “Accommodation of a Scientific Conception: Toward a Theory of Conceptual Change.” Science Education, 1982. DOI: 10.1002/sce.3730660207
  17. Hestenes, David, Malcolm Wells, and Gregg Swackhamer. “Force Concept Inventory.” The Physics Teacher, 1992. DOI: 10.1119/1.2343497
  18. Lewandowsky, Stephan, and John Cook. The Debunking Handbook 2020. free text: sks.to/db2020 · DOI: 10.17910/b7.1182

Ch. 13 — “The University Crisis”

Reproduced in full from the chapter's own “Exact sources, for citation” note.

  1. Partnership for Public Service. Federal science workforce tracking (2025–2026). no single stable document link confirmed
  2. National Science Foundation. Terminated-grants data (2025). no single stable document link confirmed
  3. U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. NSF grants database and press materials (February 2025). no single stable document link confirmed
  4. Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Federal R&D funding-cut economic modeling. no single stable document link confirmed
  5. Bush, Vannevar. Science, The Endless Frontier. 1945. NSF's own hosted copies are no longer live; full text: archive.org/details/scienceendlessfr00unit_0
  6. Holton, Gerald, and Gerhard Sonnert. On Jeffersonian science. no single document specified in the text
  7. National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Fall 2025 enrollment data. no single stable document link confirmed
  8. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Research on the college wealth premium by birth cohort. no single stable document link confirmed
  9. Mark, Melvin, Gary Henry, and George Julnes. Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs. 2000. Jossey-Bass, ISBN 978-0-7879-4802-3

Also named directly in the chapter's narrative, outside the reproduced note above:

  1. Baker, Theo. How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University. Penguin Press, 2026. ISBN 978-0-593-83283-7
  2. Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Viking, 2005 — named in the site companion-reading note for this chapter. ISBN 978-0-14-303655-5

The specific 2025–2026 funding, workforce, and enrollment figures behind this chapter are gathered, dated, and kept separate from this citation list in the book's own “Notes — Time-Bound Figures” backmatter section, since those numbers move faster than a bibliography entry should imply.

Part V — The Path Forward

Ch. 14 — “Everybody Votes on Science”

Reproduced in full from the chapter's own “Exact sources, for citation” note.

  1. Miller, Jon D. “The Measurement of Civic Scientific Literacy.” Public Understanding of Science, 1998, and Civic Scientific Literacy surveys through 2016. DOI: 10.1088/0963-6625/7/3/001
  2. Archer, Louise, et al. “Science Aspirations, Capital, and Family Habitus.” American Educational Research Journal, 2012. DOI: 10.3102/0002831211433290
  3. Research on school-bond referendum voting behavior (partisan affiliation and self-interest as predictors, and voter unfamiliarity with ballot measures). Applied Economics Letters and Public Budgeting & Finance, 2025. no single article specified in the text
  4. Research!America. National polling on bipartisan public support for federal basic-research funding and U.S. science leadership. no single document link confirmed
  5. Research on trust as a predictor of shared decision-making between patients and physicians. Social and Personality Psychology Compass and related clinical literature. no single article specified in the text
  6. Kahan, Dan M., et al. “The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks.” Nature Climate Change, 2012. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1547
  7. Falk, John H., and Lynn D. Dierking. Research on “free-choice learning” and lifelong adult science learning. no single document specified in the text
  8. Hidi, Suzanne, and K. Ann Renninger. “The Four-Phase Model of Interest Development.” Educational Psychologist, 2006. DOI: 10.1207/s15326985ep4102_4
  9. U.S. Energy Information Administration. January 2026 short-term energy outlook (strongest four-year U.S. electricity demand growth since 2000). no single stable document link confirmed
  10. Goldman Sachs Research. U.S. data-center power demand projections, 2025–2027. no single stable document link confirmed
  11. Reporting on Loudoun County, Virginia's data-center history (AOL/MAE-East fiber buildout, 2009 state tax exemption, 2014 zoning ordinance) and Dominion Energy's 2026 rate case and new large-user rate class (Virginia State Corporation Commission). no single document link confirmed
  12. Woodbury County and Linn County, Iowa data-center moratoria (2026), reported via local and regional coverage. no single document link confirmed
  13. FERC Order 2023 and 2026 reporting on the national interconnection queue backlog. no single document link confirmed
  14. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 10 CFR Part 53 final rule (finalized March 26, 2026; effective April 29, 2026). Federal Register: federalregister.gov, published March 30, 2026
  15. Centrus Energy and U.S. Department of Energy. Reporting on domestic HALEU production capacity. no single document link confirmed
  16. Industry and IEEE Spectrum/Kearney coverage of the global power-engineering workforce gap (450,000–1.5 million by 2030). no single document link confirmed
  17. Federal and academic reporting on data-center water use for cooling (Brookings, EESI, and Bloomberg data on national indirect water-consumption footprint). no single document link confirmed
  18. Novva Data Centers (Utah/Nevada) and Microsoft. Reporting on water-free closed-loop cooling deployment. no single document link confirmed

As with Chapter 13, the specific grid, nuclear, and workforce figures behind “Who Pays When the Grid Blinks” are dated and gathered separately in the “Notes — Time-Bound Figures” backmatter section.

Ch. 15 — “If You Can't Reason, You Can't Ask Good Questions”

  1. Wakefield, A.J., et al. “Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia, Non-Specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children.” The Lancet, 1998 (retracted 2010). original DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0 · retraction: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60175-4
  2. Madsen, K.M., et al. “A Population-Based Study of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism.” New England Journal of Medicine, 2002. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa021134
  3. Hviid, A., et al. “Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study.” Annals of Internal Medicine, 2019. DOI: 10.7326/M18-2101
  4. Cohen, J., et al. “Linking Arctic variability and change with extreme winter weather in the United States.” Science, 2021. DOI: 10.1126/science.abi9167
  5. Zimmerman, Barry J. “Becoming a Self-Regulated Learner: An Overview.” Theory Into Practice, 2002. DOI: 10.1207/s15430421tip4102_2
  6. Battlefield Science, Volumes I and II. Student-edited and student-created science publications. no ISBN/stable catalog link confirmed
  7. Peters, E., and Kitsantas, A. “The Effect of Nature of Science Metacognitive Prompts on Science Students' Content and Nature of Science Knowledge, Metacognition, and Self-Regulatory Efficacy.” School Science and Mathematics, 110(8), 2010, pp. 382–396. DOI: 10.1111/j.1949-8594.2010.00050.x
    Flagged for a final confirmation: published under “Peters,” prior to Dr. Erin Peters-Burton's name change. High-confidence match to the chapter's description of her work, not yet confirmed directly with her.

Ch. 16 — “When Fluency Isn't Thinking”

Reproduced in full from the chapter's own “Exact sources, for citation” note.

  1. Jumper, John, et al. “Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold.” Nature, 596, 2021 — pLDDT and its calibration against measured accuracy. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2
  2. Vander Meersche, Yann, Julien Diharce, Jean-Christophe Gelly, and Tatiana Galochkina. “Flexibility or uncertainty? A critical assessment of AlphaFold 2 pLDDT.” Structure, 33(12), 2025 — the limits of pLDDT, including its failure in the presence of interacting partners. DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2025.09.001
  3. OpenAI. “GPT-4 Technical Report.” 2023 — the base model is well calibrated, and calibration is reduced after post-training. arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774
  4. Farquhar, Sebastian, Jannik Kossen, Lorenz Kuhn, and Yarin Gal. “Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy.” Nature, 630, 2024 — reconstructing a confidence signal from outside the model. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07421-0
  5. Baker, Theo. “What A.I. Did to My College Class — We arrived on campus at the dawn of ChatGPT. What was college for?” New York Times, May 17, 2026. nytimes.com (subscription required; headline as published may vary by edition)

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