Nature Physics - Cargo-cult science redux. How could he have got away with this for as long as he did? If you are curious about this, then Plastic Fantastic is the book for you. The author ...

In the 1974 commencement address at the California Institute of Technology, Richard Feynman spoke about guarding against “cargo cult science.” Cargo cults, he explained, were south Pacific pre ...

“Cargo cult science” was his term for research that never seemed to yield provable results, but acquired public acceptance because they possessed the veneer of rigorous methodology.

Responding to some of the more ridiculous paeans to science expressed at the recent “Science March,” Jeremy Samuel Faust compares the attitudes of these science marchers to what physicist Richard ...

Expertise and cargo cult science. Published 13 July 2016. From Gareth Williams . If UK politician Michael Gove is right in saying the British people are “fed up with experts” then they are in ...

Nobel-winner physicist Richard Feynman coined the term ‘cargo cult science’ to describe all kinds of pseudoscience that passed off for science over the ages — ancient superstitions, black ...

Dennis Fisher talks with Gary McGraw of Cigital about the release of the BSIMM2 model, the continued maturing of software security programs and the similarities between computer security and cargo ...

Throughout Melanesia primitive men await a black Messiah who will bring them a largess of "cargo" (European goods). These cults typify the impact of Christendom on premodern society ...