↑ Arenson, Karen W (ngày 22 tháng 8 năm 2006). “What Organizations Don't Want to Know Can Hurt”. New York Times. 'there is a lot more protectiveness than there used to be,' said Dr.Proctor, who is shaping a new field, the study of ignorance, which he calls agnotology. 'It is often safer not to know.'
↑ Kreye, Andrian (2007). “We Will Overcome Agnotology (The Cultural Production Of Ignorance)”. The Edge World Question Center 2007. Edge Foundation. tr. 6. Truy cập ngày 12 tháng 8 năm 2007. This is about a society's choice between listening to science and falling prey to what Stanford science historian Robert N. Proctor calls agnotology (the cultural production of ignorance)
