Sentences with phrase «on cargo cult»

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).

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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 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).

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.

The combines hang on gallery walls like immense, cargo cult relics, or stand as free objects that you can walk around.

This is what Feynman was talking about in that quote on cargo - cult science (and by the way, I was present at that talk).

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

This ululation was soon upstaged by a WUWT commenter's epiphany on how normative climatology differs from Watt's cargo cult: