FTP, identify  this situation in which natives build wharves or runways, thinking  that it will make goods-laden boats and planes arrive.
Richard Feynman applied this term to pseudoscientific studies  that follow "the apparent precepts and forms of scientific  investigation, but are missing something essential." First noted  in the 1919 "Vailala Madness," it is most prominent in Melanesian  cultures that are suddenly confronted by the west. FTP, identify  this situation in which natives build wharves or runways, thinking  that it will make goods-laden boats and planes arrive.
Richard Feynman applied this term to pseudoscientific studies  that follow "the apparent precepts and forms of scientific  investigation, but are missing something essential."
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