>> If he was alive today, he'd be calling you a cargo cultist
I can't really speak for the man, although the only contemporary and friend of his that I know of, probably the most brilliant scientist alive today (Dyson), comes closer to agreeing with me than with you.
But on the "Cargo Cultist" comment, you really might want to review the actual text of it. In particular, the following portion of the speech which is not typically quoted, but contains the essence of the message:
"It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty -- a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid -- not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked--to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.
Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can--if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong--to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in additional.
In summary, the idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another."
calteches.library.caltech.edu
If you don't recognize it, the material Fehnman put forth above is precisely the MO of the 97%. That much, we know, from the "Climategate" scandal ten years ago if nothing else. But the outrageous behavior at IPCC, time after time, without "coming clean", is an industry wide scandal still hidden. With so much government money at stake, it is almost impossible to get clean science on the topic.
The Cargo Cult speech is about precisely what climate science became. |
