"Every scientist thinks their field research is going to continue forever! But as the saying goes — at the end of the day, we all must compile our bibliography and references..." — Nenio
This is actually bullshit.
When you do research without using other scientific works, you don't need to provide ANY reference. And it's actually degrading your work when you DO provide some references.
Bibliography is provided just for convenience to point to similar stuff and important books about subject.
I remember when I did some research I found so many bullshit they had in scientific works, I'd write 3x as much text about misconceptions than about real subject. (For example: It's kinda funny archaeogenetic actually shows REAL genetics of that population, not a "we thought because they bought vases from neighbors they are just branch of the same people", when in reality they were completely different and had closed borders to immigration to protect themselves... probably to protect themselves from changing genetic by migrations, or to protect themselves from being overrun and sold to slavery (Immigrants were awesome fifth column). It's actually kinda funny, small genetics groups need to preserve theirs own genetics and try to remove genetic defects. Big groups simply sell consequences of intermixing they don't want to slavery, preferably castrated.)
Historical (pre 1200) European climate, virology, and overpopulation/demographic problems, are also full of idiocy.