Sentences with phrase «like cargo cults»

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

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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.»

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.

The cargo cult scientists and ideologues are getting more and more angry almost like Gleick out of control.

I mean, like, attempting to question the work of a «climate scientist» (a de-oxy oxymoron) is the equivalent of questioning the aeronautical engineering theories of some cargo - cult shaman makin» a scare - booger cowrie - shell or two off the fortuitous flight - path of some DC - 3.

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).