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[DaveC426913]

is there clear difference between pseudoscience and cargo cult science?

Yes: I've heard of pseudoscience.

 

[arildno]

btw, (an off-topic question (I'm the original poster, I have right to go off-topic)) is there clear difference between pseudoscience and cargo cult science?

Well, I definitely would regard the study of cargo cults as a branch of legitimate science (anthroplogy, comparative cultural studies and so on), but I don't think that was what you meant by cargo cult science..

 

[jostpuur]

I thought that everybody uses the term cargo cult science in the same way as Feynman did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science

 

[Evo]

I thought that everybody uses the term cargo cult science in the same way as Feynman did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science

It would seem the difference is cargo cult science refers to being intellectually dishonest (falsifying or exagerating results in order to gain attention) and pseudoscience is bad science, basically unfounded beliefs claimed to be science.