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164 Heidi Ledford (2012) “Call to censor flu studies draws fire.” Published in Nature News January 3, 2012. http://doi.org/10.1038/481009a
165 March 29-30, 2012 Meeting of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity to Review Revised Manuscripts on Transmissibility of A/H5N1 Influenza Virus. Statement of the NSABB: http://www.virology.ws/NSABB_statement_march_2012.pdf
166 Ehrlich, P. (1968). “The Population Bomb.” Sierra Club/Ballantine Books.
167 Roger A. Pielke Jr. (2007). “The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics” Published by Cambridge University Press.
168 “The world’s worst natural disasters. Calamities of the 20th and 21st centuries” Published by CBC, May 8, 2008. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/the-world-s-worst-natural-disasters-1.743208
169 See, for instance, Ed Yong’s 2016 book “I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life,” published by Ecco.
170 Park, J., et al. (2012). “Integrating Risk and Resilience Approaches to Catastrophe Management in Engineering Systems.” Risk Analysis 33(3): 356-367. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01885.x
171 Woods, D. D. (2015). “Four concepts for resilience and the implications for the future of resilience engineering.” Reliability Engineering & System Safety 141: 5-9. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2015.03.018
172 Seager, T. P., et al. (2017). “Redesigning Resilient Infrastructure Research.” Published in “Resilience and Risk. Methods and Application in Environment, Cyber and Social Domains.” Editors: I. Linkov and J. M. Palma-Oliveira Springer. Pages 81-119.
173 Angel, R. (2006). “Feasibility of cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point (L1).” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(46): 17184. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608163103
174 See “Geoengineering: Does it need a dose of geoethics?” 2020 Science, January 28, 2009. https://2020science.org/2009/01/28/geoengineering-does-it-need-a-dose-of-geoethics/
175 The name LOHAFEX comes from “LOHA,” the Hindi word for iron, and “FEX,” an acronym derived from Fertilization Experiment. The lead scientists were nothing if not obscurely creative!
176 “LOHAFEX: An Indo-German iron fertilization experiment.” Eurekalert, January 13, 2009. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/haog-lai011309.php
177 I may be slipping into hyperbole here, but over the years talking with colleagues, this is the movie that often comes out as most closely reflecting how they feel about science, and how it inspires them.
178 A lot has been written about how our cognitive biases and mental shortcuts affect what we believe and how we behave, including how we respond to information that jars with what we believe to be true. Two good starting points for beginning to explore this area are Daniel Kahneman’s 2013 book, “Thinking Fast and Slow” (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and the 2017 US National Academy of Sciences report, “Communicating Science Effectively” (published by the National Academies Press), https://www.nap.edu/catalog/23674/communicating-science-effectively-a-research-agenda.
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Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Acknowledgments