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  Chapter 5

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  Chapter 6

  Baker, Monya. “Biotech Giant Publishes Failures to Confirm High-Profile Science.” Nature 530, no. 7589 (2016). https://www.nature.com/news/biotech-giant-publishes-failures-to-confirm-high-profile-science-1.19269.

  Barone, Michael. “Why Political Polls Are So Often Wrong.” Wall Street Journal, November 11, 2015. https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-political-polls-are-so-often-wrong-1447285797.

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  Carey, Benedict, and Pam Belluck. “Doubts about Study of Gay Canvassers Rattle the Field.” New York Times, May 25, 2015. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/science/maligned-study-on-gay-marriage-is-shaking-trust.html.

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  Jennions, M. D., and A. P. Møller. “Relationships Fade with Time: A Meta-analysis of Temporal Trends in Publication in Ecology and Evolution.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences 269, no. 1486 (2002): 43–48.

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  LaCour, Michael J., and Donald P. Green. “When Contact Changes Minds: An Experiment on Transmission of Support for Gay Equality.” Science 346, no. 6215 (2014): 1366–69. doi: 10.1126/science.1256151.

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  Vazire, S., L. J. Jussim, J. A. Krosnick, S. T. Stevens, and S. Anglin. In preparation. “A Social Psychological Model of Suboptimal Scientific Practices.” University of California, Davis.

  Vul, Edward, Christine Harris, Piotr Winkielman, and Harold Pashler. “Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 4, no. 3 (2009): 274–90. https://www.edvul.com/pdf/VulHarrisWinkielmanPashler-PPS-2009.pdf.

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  Zimbardo, Philip. “The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment.” Stanford University, Stanford Digital Repository.

  Chapter 7

  Alberts, Bruce, Ralph J. Cicerone, Stephen E. Fienberg, Alexander Kamb, Marcia McNutt, Robert M. Nerem, Randy Schekman, et al. “Self-Correction in Science at Work.” Science 348, no. 6242 (June 26, 2015): 1420–22. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab3847.

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  Brandt, Allan. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. 1st reprint edition. New York: Basic Books, 2009.

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  Cook, John, Peter Ellerton, and David Kinkead. “Deconstructing Climate Misinformation to Identify Reasoning Errors.” Environmental Research Letters 13, no. 2 (2018): 024018. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748–9326/aaa49f.

  Cook, John, Stephan Lewandowsky, and Ullrich K. H. Ecker. “Neutralizing Misinformation through Inoculation: Exposing Misleading Argumentation Techniques Reduces Their Influence.” PLOS ONE 12, no. 5 (May 5, 2017): e0175799. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175799.

  Darrah, Thomas H., Robert B. Jackson, Avner Vengosh, Nathaniel R. Warner, Colin J. Whyte, Talor B. Walsh, Andrew J. Kondash, and Robert J. Poreda. “The Evolution of Devonian Hydrocarbon Gases in Shallow Aquifers of the Northern Appalachian Basin: Insights from Integrating Noble Gas and Hydrocarbon Geochemistry.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 170 (December 1, 2015): 321–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.09.006.

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  Fanelli, Daniele. “How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data.” PLOS ONE 4, no. 5 (May 29, 2009): e5738. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005738.

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  Lewandowsky, Stephan, Kevin Cowtan, James S. Risbey, Michael E. Mann, Byron A. Steinman, Naomi Oreskes, and Stefan Rahmstorf. “The ‘Pause’ in Global Warming in Historical Context: (II). Comparing Models to Observations.” Environmental Research Letters 13, no. 12 (2018): 123007. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748–9326/aaf372.

  Lewandowsky, Stephan, James S. Risbey, and Naomi Oreskes. “The ‘Pause’ in Global Warming: Turning a Routine Fluctuation into a Problem for Science.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 97, no. 5 (September 14, 2015): 723–33. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14–00106.1.

  ________. “On the Definition and Identifiability of the Alleged ‘Hiatus’ in Global Warming.” Scientific Reports 5 (November 24, 2015): 16784. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep16784.

  Lewandowsky, Stephan, Naomi Oreskes, James S. Risbey, Ben R. Newell, and Michael Smithson. “Seepage: Climate Change Denial and Its Effect on the Scientific Community.” Global Environmental Change 33 (July 1, 2015): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.02.013.

  Lewandowsky, Stephan, Toby Pilditch, Jens Koed Madsen, Naomi Oreskes, and James S. Risbey. “Seepage and Influence: An Evidence-Resistant Minority Can Affect Scientific Belief Formation and Public Opinion.” Cognition, Forthcoming.

  Linden, Sander van der, Anthony Leiserowitz, Seth Rosenthal, and Edward Maibach. “Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change.” Global Challenges 1, no. 2 (2017): 1600008. https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.201600008.

  Linden, Sander van der, Edward Maibach, John Cook, Anthony Leiserowitz, and Stephan Lewandowsky. “Inoculating against Misinformation.” Science 358, no. 6367 (December 1, 2017): 1141–42. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar4533.

  Markowitz, Gerald, and David Rosner. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution. 1st paperback printing edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.