Sentences with phrase «of cargo cults»

On the east side of Tanna, at the bottom of the volcanic slopes of Mount Yaser, the last of the cargo cults live awaiting the second coming of an American deity they call John Frum.

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 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.

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.»

A textbook example of cargo cult science.

Her talk is a typical example of cargo cult science.

Not exact matches

This is cargo cult engineering, where things are included not for any rational purpose, but in order to imitate the rituals of Bitcoin.

When I tell people about the John Frum cargo cults of Vanuatu, they laugh at what the sillyunsophisticated natives believe When I tell people about Mormon beliefs they shake their heads at the things a fool will believe When I tell people about $ cientology they shake their heads at the things a fool will pay to believe

«CARGO CULT» ANTHROPOLOGY: «In the central highlands of New Guinea the sudden transition from the society of the stone ax to the society of sailing ships (and now of airplanes) has not been easy to make.

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).

Inspired both by traditional bracelets and cargo cults — religious groups who believe material wealth can be obtained through ritual worship, the San Antonio artist presents a monumental charm bracelet sculpted out of reclaimed wood and related drawings.

His Notes Toward Painting, written in 2003, around the time of that shift, is a dense web of references, encompassing the discovery of electricity and the origins of Spiritualism, the interrelationship of abstraction and the GI Bill, Bazooka Joe, the first satellites, Creek Native Americans, cabooses and cargo cults, surpassing the scope of his earlier research into the art and material culture of the fin de siècle in France.

Borrowing models for fetishization from contemporary cargo cults or the animism of the tech world, Simon Dybbroe Møller deals with things that are too late; things that fulfill desires that have already been thoroughly discussed and articulated, but have been missing a body.

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.

---------------------------------------------------------------- I believe you misunderstand the premise of «cargo cult».

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

It came up at the NAS Panel and was completely unresolved in the hearings discussed here, where D'Arrigo was only able to refer to Briffa's cargo cult explanation of the phenomenon.

it is hardly surprising to find that one of the founding members of the co2 cargo cult will preach with equal vehemence against it at a later date.

Climate and toxic coffee ate nice examples of what Feynman deplored as cargo cult scams.

Now that climate and renewables have taken over their focus evidently discussion, debate and education have been abandoned (or transformed into a weird cargo cult form of such).

Pacific cargo cults apparently continue, notwithstanding the failure of the cargo ever to arrive.

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

This is an example of what Prof. Feynman would call «cargo cult science.»

What is obvious is that the consensus science is a fine example of «cargo cult» science.

Could it be they're all hypocrites with beliefs of convenience and a cargo cult understanding of economics?

A definition of «cargo cult» science, actually in the context of particle and high - energy physics, but the term will feel very familiar to those of us who try to decipher climate science:

I've been trying to figure out a proper term for Briffa's explanation — would you agree that it's a cargo cult explanation of «divergence»?

Climate alarmism is a cargo cult... a group of smart people who have completely fooled themselves.

Revocating the climate endangerment finding will similarly require testimony of brave people such as Doc Carlin against the climate change cargo cult.

But the issue is surface temperatures, why they have paused and giving a sensible explanation, Teleportation of heat only when a pause occurs is cargo cult science.

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).

Andrew Duffin: I can't recall Feynman cherry - picking 15 years, that kind of stuff belongs to the cargo - cult people he railed against.

And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in cargo cult science.

You can cargo - cult your way to a better office by building different desks and arranging them in different ways — but nothing will change until you understand the fundamentals of where business is broken.

This is cargo cult engineering, where things are included not for any rational purpose, but in order to imitate the rituals of Bitcoin.