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Re:Richard Feynman: Cargo Cult Science (1974) by gwern on Sunday October 13, 2013 @07:40PM (#6544573)
> Except he died of cancer (probably related to his work on the manhattan project) in 1989.

Something like a fifth of the American population will die of cancer, without ever having worked on the Manhattan population.

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Re:Richard Feynman: Cargo Cult Science (1974) by TheZenPsycho on Sunday October 13, 2013 @08:29PM (#6544720)
"worked on the Manhattan population" is an interesting linguistic slip. [saving for AI research]
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Re:Richard Feynman: Cargo Cult Science (1974) by fnordfnordfnord on Sunday October 13, 2013 @08:41PM (#6544767)
Everyone got to enjoy the thousand or so atmospheric tests that were conducted.
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Re:Richard Feynman: Cargo Cult Science (1974) by cma on Sunday October 13, 2013 @07:56PM (#6544616)
The exception that proves the rule.
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