Think Again

Chapter 3. The Joy of Being Wrong
“I have a degree”
: Frasier, season 2, episode 12, “Roz in the Doghouse,” January 3, 1995, NBC.
a wildly unethical study
: Henry A. Murray, “Studies of Stressful Interpersonal Disputations,”
American Psychologist 18 (1963): 28–36.
“Some may have found the experience”
: Richard G. Adams, “Unabomber,” The Atlantic,
September 2000, “Letters,” 
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/09/letters/378379
.
events as “highly agreeable”
: Alston Chase, A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber
and the Origins of Modern Terrorism (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004).
What makes an idea interesting
: Murray S. Davis, “That’s Interesting!: Toward a Phenomenology
of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology,” Philosophy of Social Science 1 (1971): 309–
44.
moon might originally have formed
: Sarah T. Stewart, “Where Did the Moon Come From? A New
Theory,” TED Talks, February 2019,
www.ted.com/talks/sarah_t_stewart_where_did_the_moon_come_from_a_new_theory
.
narwhal’s tusk is actually a tooth
: Lesley Evans Ogden, “The Tusks of Narwhals Are Actually
Teeth That Are Inside-Out,” BBC, October 26, 2015, 
www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151026-the-
tusks-of-narwhals-are-actually-teeth-that-are-inside-out
.
miniature dictator living inside our heads
: Anthony G. Greenwald, “The Totalitarian Ego:
Fabrication and Revision of Personal History,” American Psychologist 35 (1980): 603–18.
“You must not fool yourself”
: Richard P. Feynman, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”:
Adventures of a Curious Character (New York: W. W. Norton, 1985), and “Cargo Cult Science,”
Caltech Commencement, 1974, 
calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
.