Sentences with phrase «cargo cult science»

But there is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science.

Her talk is a typical example of cargo cult science.

A number of prominent physicists have made critical comments about the subversion of science, what Richard Feynman called cargo cult science.

Their fervour for cargo cult sciences may simply be mercenary, and a function of the massive government funding going into things like global warming studies.

when Feynman gave his memorable 1974 commencement talk at cal tech, advising against cargo cult science, perhaps he drew on heros from his youth?

And you get hockey sticks, cargo cult science really, because when sociology takes over, it is the power over that is important, not the power for, and the people who survive the competition are not the real scientists but they are the manipulators of science for their own and their groups advancement.

Yes, when we make the assumption that * every * new failure, discrepancy, or divergence is a reflection of a new kind mechanism, then we are surely doing cargo cult science.

Contrarians are fond of citing his strictures on cargo cult science (in some cases I have to admit because it always gets a rise out of me when I find it) but in fact they are the cargo cultists (he was referring to engineers and administrators who didn't want to admit that an o ring could freeze and break, and the like, because they were wedded to their ideas).

-- A Wall Street Journal example of how the EPA use cargo cult science to scare people.

«But there is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science.

One of my professors, Richard Feynman, would have called it cargo cult science.

That he was mentioned at all is because his writings regards the cargo cult science is for me the anchor piece for what honest science is and what is not honest science.

Famed scientist Richard Feynman offers an excellent description of «good science» vs. «cargo cult science» here.

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«cargo cult sciences» is a term close to my heart.

It is «Post normal science» or «cargo cult science».

Somewhere, Richard Feynman must be grimacing, scoffing and muttering «cargo cult science.»