NOTES 4. Jesse Lee Peterson, Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America (Nashville: WND Books, 2003), pp. 1–2. 5. Shelby Steele, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (New York: HarperCollins, 2006). 6. Juan Williams, Enough (Crown Publishing, 2006). 7. Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture: A World View (New York: Basic Books, 1992). 8. “FAA’s Regulations Ruffle Feathers of Hang Gliders,” Binghamton (New York) Press, September 3, 1982, p. 1A. 9. Ken Hamblin, Plain Talk and Common Sense from the Black Avenger (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), p. 34. 10. “Long Sentences Sought for Repeat Offenders,” New York Times, April 25, 1982, p. 63. 11. “Possessed Teen Gets Long Prison Term,” (Oneonta, New York) Star, December 19, 1981, p. 2. 12. “Woman Convicted of Making Ethnic Slur,” (Oneonta, New York) Star, May 14, 1982, p. 2. 13. “High School Class Uses Human Cadavers in Lab,” Binghamton (New York) Press, December 15, 1982, p. 2C. CHAPTER 11: ERRORS OF EXPRESSION 1. Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice (New York: Free Press, 1999), p. 18. 2. Quoted in Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (New York: Villard, 1998). 3. Cerf and Navasky, The Experts Speak. 4. Henry B. Veatch, Rational Man: A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962), p. 43. 5. Karla Valance, “This Time, the Rebel’s on the Right,” Christian Science Monitor, January 27, 1983, p. 1B; George Basler, “Student Paper Urges Theft and Graffiti,” Binghamton (New York) Press, January 25, 1983, p. 1F. 6. “Witch’s Church Tax Free,” (Oneonta, New York) Star, April 8, 1982, p. 17. CHAPTER 12: ERRORS OF REACTION 1. Rowland W. Jepson, Clear Thinking, 5th ed. (New York: Longman, Green, 1967 [1936]), p. 81. 2. Harold Kolansky, M.D., and William T. Moore, M.D., “Toxic Effects of Chronic Marijuana Use,” Journal of the American Medical Association, October 2, 1972, pp. 35–41. 3. David G. Myers, Social Psychology, 4th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993), p. 148. 4. “Bar License Church Veto Struck Down,” Binghamton (New York) Press, December 14, 1982, p. 4A. CHAPTER 13: THE ERRORS IN COMBINATION 1. David G. Myers, Intuition: Its Powers and Perils (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002), p. 101. 2. H. L. Gee, Five Hundred Tales to Tell Again (New York: Roy Publishers/Epworth Press, 1955). 3. Cited in Robyn M. Dawes, House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth (New York: Free Press, 1994), p. 209. 4. George Will, Suddenly (New York: Free Press, 1992), p. 89. Will cites Norman MacRae as his source. 229
230 NOTES 5. “An Exercise in Educational Flimflam,” Parade, May 12, 1974, p. 17. 6. “Court Order Blocks Big Inmate Release,” (Oneonta, New York) Star, December 22, 1981, p. 12. 7. “Ruling Strikes Down Exempt Status,” (Oneonta, New York) Star, March 27, 1982, p. 1. 8. “State Rules Let Gays and Crooks Adopt Children,” Binghamton (New York) Press, August 8, 1982, p. 1A. 9. “Ex-Policeman Says Sex Shift Cost His Job,” (Schenectady, New York) Gazette, August 28, 1982, p. 14. CHAPTER 14: KNOWING YOURSELF 1. Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975). 2. Reported in First Things, December 1996, p. 58. 3. Burden of Proof, CNN, February 24, 1997. 4. “Bill Limits Link Between Tobacco and Sports,” Nation/World section, Tampa Tribune, February 23, 1997, p. 14. 5. Reported on The Today Show, NBC TV, August 26, 1996. 6. “Questioning Campus Discipline,” Time, May 31, 1982, p. 68. 7. “Holiday Songs Haunt Schoolmen,” Binghamton (New York) Press, December 16, 1982, p. 3A. 8. “Elizabeth Taylor vs. Tailored Truth,” Time, November 8, 1982, p. 71. 9. Interview with Shirley MacLaine, USA Today, June 16, 1983, p. 11A. CHAPTER 15: BEING OBSERVANT 1. Lawrence K. Altman, “Discovery 60 Years Ago Changed Doctors’ Minds on Heart Attack Survival,” New York Times, December 10, 1972, pp. 56–57. 2. Earl Ubell, “Lysozyme: One of the Body’s Miracle Workers,” New York Times, November 12, 1972, sec. 4, p. 6. 3. “Attacking Disease,” dialogue between Jacques Monod and Jean Hamburger, Intellectual Digest, May 1974, pp. 12–14. 4. Richard P. Feynman, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman” (New York: Bantam Books, 1985), esp. pp. 157–58. 5. Binghamton (New York) Press, March 22, 1989, p. 1A. CHAPTER 16: SELECTING AN ISSUE 1. “Tragedy May Haunt Mancini,” Binghamton (New York) Press, November 16, 1982, p. 4D. CHAPTER 17: CONDUCTING INQUIRY 1. Lee Edson, “Will Man Ever Live in Space?” New York Times Magazine, December 31, 1972, p. 10ff. 2. Gordon Gaskill, “Which Mountain Did Moses Really Climb?” Reader’s Digest, June 1973, pp. 209–16. 3. Lucy Burchard, “The Snug Way,” Intellectual Digest, February 1974, p. 67.
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