The Difference between ‘True Science’ and ‘Cargo-Cult Science’
Excellent article.
“Junk Science” is another definition that should be included. This definition arose from the civil litigation world in the 1970s. Generally it is used to indicate that the advocate’s claim is spurious respecting: Generation of presented data, the research interpretation and analysis, or claims of cause and effect relationships from flawed data and/or analysis.
The important part is that there are clear implications of a motive on the part of the claimant that may be ideological, financial, religious, political, regulatory, legal churning, academic advancement, self aggrandizement or even mental illness.
In the case of Global Warming, for many of the “scientists” it is all of the above in addition to becoming cargo cult which is used to protect the fraud perpetrators.
