cargo cult science
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined by American physicist Richard Feynman in 1974 in his commencement address at Caltech, in reference to cargo cults.[1]
Noun[edit]
cargo cult science (uncountable)
- Practices which have the appearance of being scientific, but do not actually follow the scientific method.
References[edit]
- ^ Richard Feynman (1974) “Cargo Cult Science”, in Caltech commencement address[1]:
- I think the educational and psychological studies I mentioned are examples of what I would like to call Cargo Cult Science. […] So I call these things Cargo Cult Science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they’re missing something essential, because the planes don’t land.
Further reading[edit]
- cargo cult science on Wikipedia.Wikipedia