Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

I'm not sure that "education" as the article states is one of them. But the war on drugs certainly is.



Education is definitely one of them. Kids learn at public schools by accident. Utah has some of the lowest spending on education in the nation and yet it has some of the highest standardized testing scores. Similar to the war on drugs sometimes public education correlates with actual learning, but sometimes arresting people who have drugs lowers drug usage. In both cases we don't actually understand what we're doing.


For me, the word "education" does not appear in the article hosted at the URL https://fermatslibrary.com/s/cargo-cult-science

Maybe fermatslibrary.com is a badly designed website that returns SEO spam like content depending on such things as IP address, browser or some other factors.

It's interesting that a URL is no ground truth, and that my comments below are discussing an entirely different text.


Education is mentioned on the first page in the 6th paragraph.

Upon reading your other comment, it's possible that whatever you are viewing the page on is not rendering the pdf containing the actual text and you are only seeing the annotations.




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: