Cargo Cult Sciences

I’ve concluded that it’s not a scientific world.

This is a post I feel I almost need to repeat every month or more, just so people start paying attention.

The opening comment there comes from a speech given by Richard Feynman (the eccentric physicist and Nobel Laureate) in 1974 to the students of Caltech.  He attacked what he called “Caro Cult Sciences,” those things that seems scientific but lack the pillars of the scientific methods.

Yet these things are said to be scientific. We study them. And I think ordinary people with commonsense ideas are intimidated by this pseudoscience.

So give the article a read, and you’ll be pleasantly delighted, you can also find this story in Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman.  He’s definitely an icon of the last century.