Sentences with phrase «doing cargo cult»

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It's like cargo cults: You're just doing what you see without understanding what happens behind the scenes that creates the results.

Did you look up the cargo cults?

That was the original premise for cargo cult, in that primitive people would do weird stuff with found objects.

Any cargo cult climastrologist can do it.

How does one distinguish between science and pseudoscience, between true science and cargo - cult science?

When someone does face it, it is increasingly likely that it will show their work to go down as 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).