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cargo cult science

noun

Etymology

Coined by American physicist Richard Feynman in 1974 in his commencement address at Caltech, in reference to cargo cults.

Definitions

  1. Practices which have the appearance of being scientific, but do not actually follow the…

    Practices which have the appearance of being scientific, but do not actually follow the scientific method.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cargo cult science. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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