News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:On Intellectual Dishonesty by tokenadult on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @01:18PM (#3352918)
A widely linked reprint of Richard Feynman's "Cargo Cult Science" commencement address at Caltech:

http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm

The original Caltech posting of the speech text, in .PDF format:

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf

"I would like to add something that's not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you're talking as a scientist. I am not trying to tell you what to do about cheating on your wife, or fooling your girlfriend, or something like that, when you're not trying to be a scientist, but just trying to be an ordinary human being. We'll leave those problems up to you and your rabbi. I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you are maybe wrong, that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen."

There are no comments on this comment yet.