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	Encyclopedia: Cargo cult science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richard Feynman during his famous cargo cult science speech at the Caltech 1974 commencement address.
		Cargo cult science is a term invented by Richard Feynman to describe research that is conducted experimentally and appears to be scientific, but produces results of questionable significance due to nonscientific factors like expediency or institutional bias.
		An example of cargo cult science would be any experiment that uses another researcher's results in lieu of an experimental control.
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	AllRefer.com - cargo cult (Anthropology: Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia
		The cult aims to restore a past time and to regain the goodwill of ancestors who are being lured into giving cargo to the white foreigners, cargo originally intended for the native Melanesians.
		Cargo cults are revivalistic, in that the adherents expect the restoration of a golden age in which they will be reunited with their ancestors, and nativistic (see nativism), in that the whites are to be driven away.
		However, as the cargo is composed principally of European goods, and native goods and rituals are abandoned, both the nativistic and revivalistic aspects of cargo cults are qualified by a strong motive toward acculturation.
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	Cult - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In religion and sociology, a cult is a group with a religious or philosophical identity, often existing on the margins of society.
		In English, it remains perfectly neutral to refer to the "cult of Artemis at Ephesus" and the "cult figures" that accompanied it, or to "the importance of the Ave Maria in the cult of the Virgin."
		Some groups, particularly those labeled by others as cults, view the designation as insensitive, and feel persecuted by their opponents whom they often believe to be part of the "anti-cult movement", the existence of which is disputed.
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	Cargo cult science -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Feynman cautioned that to avoid becoming cargo cult scientists, researchers must be willing to doubt results and to investigate possible flaws in an experiment.
		An example of cargo cult science would be any experiment in which another researcher's results are used in lieu of an (Click link for more info and facts about experimental control) experimental control.
		Since the other researcher's conditions might differ from those of the present experiment in unknown ways, different results might be unrelated to the ((statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables) independent variable under consideration.
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	Cargo cult science
		Cargo Cult Science is a term invented by Richard Feynman to describe a particular type of pseudoscience in which all the superficial aspects of scientific inquiry are adhered to, although the underlying causal link between the conditions and the outcome is not understood.
		Feynman introduced the phrase in a speech at Caltech in 1974, the transcript of which can be found in the book Surely You're Joking, Mr.
		He based the phrase on an existing concept in anthropology, the cargo cult.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cargo_cult_science.html (156 words)

	Cargo cult programming - Computing Reference - eLook.org
		A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare shotgun debugging, voodoo programming).
		The term "cargo cult" is a reference to aboriginal religions that grew up in the South Pacific after World War II.
		The practices of these cults centre on building elaborate mockups of aeroplanes and military style landing strips in the hope of bringing the return of the god-like aeroplanes that brought such marvelous cargo during the war.
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