Climate and toxic coffee ate nice examples of what Feynman deplored
as cargo cult scams.
Not exact matches
As more and more children get removed from the old ways of indoctrinating them all with religious belief from an early age, then atheism will become the norm, and religion the refuge of the minorities of the mentally ill and the lame seekers of
cargo cults.
Studies of
cargo cults, messianic movements, and Third World millenarianism, including widely read classics such
as Peter Worsley's The Trumpet Shall Sound and Bryan Wilson's Magic and the Millennium, have paid close attention to the effects of international relations on domestic religious developments.2 In increasing numbers, books have appeared on the religious situation in strategic parts of the globe, such
as the Middle East and Latin America, and with growing frequency articles on American religion refer to issues such
as global consciousness, nuclear disarmament, and the effects of U.S. involvement in foreign affairs.
As U. struggles to begin work on the document, he obsesses over seemingly disparate subjects: the suspicious circumstances of a skydiver's death, Vanuatu
cargo cults, and a recent offshore oil spill.
Marla, then writing
as Equity Private, started out with a narrowly focussed blog about the «sardonic memoirs of a private equity professional,» but gradually expanded to cover only tangentially related topics like the role of government, economics, philosophy, literature, art, duelling, card sharping and
cargo cults (the implications of which won't be lost on most readers).
The combines hang on gallery walls like immense,
cargo cult relics, or stand
as free objects that you can walk around.
Detractors, like Art in America's Brian Droitcour, see the movement
as «the art of a
cargo cult, made in awe at the way brands thrive in networks.»
Tagged
as: Aldo Leopold, Ashtoreth,
cargo cult science, David Graber, environmentalism, Gaia, greening churches, Greenpeace, John Muir, National Parks Service, Pachamama, pagan, perennial philosophy, Prince Charles, Sierra Club, uroburos, World Wildlife Fund, WWF
When someone does face it, it is increasingly likely that it will show their work to go down
as cargo -
cult science.
Revocating the climate endangerment finding will similarly require testimony of brave people such
as Doc Carlin against the climate change
cargo cult.
as always the thought creeps in... what if this is
cargo -
cult science?