Sentences with phrase «cargo cultists»

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).

-- Once again, I wonder whether the physicists, those most attuned to hard and serious science, are the ones to save science from cargo cultists, for it is the physicists who speak out against the orthodox, the physicists who are skeptics of incredible, unproven, untested (or worse, tested and failed) claims.