1. Arthur E. Bestor, Educational Wastelands (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1953), 197–206.
2. 3. Arthur E. Bestor, “Aimlessness in Education,” Scientific Monthly 75 (1952): 109–116; Harry J. Fuller, “The Emperor’s New Clothes or Prius Dementat,” Scientific Monthly 72 (1951): 32–41
3. A discussion of the various public images of science and scientists for the first half of the twentieth century can be found in Marcel C. LaFollete, Making Science Our Own: Public Images of Science, 1910–1955 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990). On the public authority of science see Thomas F. Gieryn, Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 1–35.
4. 6. S. S. Schweber, “Big Science in Context: Cornell and MIT,” in Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research, ed. Peter Galison and Bruce Hevly (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 156; Daniel J.Kevles, The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987), 287–323;Walter A. McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth:A Political History of the Space Age (New York: Basic Books, 1985), 5–6.
5. Kevles, The Physicists, 302–323; Dexter Masters, “We Outsmarted Them on Radar,” Saturday Evening Post, 8 September 1945, 20; David P.Adams, “The Penicillin Mystique and the Popular Press (1935–1950),” Pharmacy in History 26 (1984): 134–142.