Cargo Cult Science

Learning about the cargo cult science made me start thinking about what we are doing now that could very be the same thing as the early ages. As he does his study on witch doctors and what it is exactly that they did, he came across another question that I think everyone needs to ask themselves. Why do people believe the things that they do? This is a question I asked myself after reading his discoveries because not knowing why I believe something is curious to me. I believe in God and reincarnation. Was it because I was brought up on that or someone higher up told me that they do really exist that I believed? With all of the astounding religions that are here today, its hard to really pin point what exactly it is that let me to believe what it is that I believe. Feynman also believes that this is not a scientific world and I would have to agree. Yes we have technology that just keeps emerging everyday that help with science of today, but we also have so many believers out there who are not going to let their belief system shatter because some scientist in middle of nowhere says that they are wrong. Why are we allowing ourselves to believe this nonsense. This is a free country, no not a free world, but we are allowed to believe what we want to believe whether its public or private. We can pray to who ever we want to and shouldn't be put down for doing so.
The idea of cargo cult science, doing something that has been done before, but still missing something, scares me because what are they doing in science now that could result in them 'missing' something. What about the tests to cure cancer, are they really just 'missing' something that they don't know about? If something is wrong, you must explain why it is wrong. You can't just say that it is and thats that, so why is it that when people are telling others that they are wrong to be worshiping a God that they are wrong, but not proving it. Are they simply just being prejudice against those that are believing because they are unable to? He states that one should “try not to fool oneself and other scientists” well I think thats what they are already doing. One man said there was no God and put together some mumble jumble to prove he was right and fooled another man. And then that man told someone else and so and so forth. They should be able to do a million tests to prove that they are right, but instead they do one and thats that. But one result can vary from tests to test and the only way to truly figure out if you are right is do multiple tests. They should all just get off their high horse and do more than one. Some scientists think they are just too good to more than one. That if one tests gives them the answer they want then they are too scared to do more because it can ultimately prove them wrong. This reading was extremely interesting to me because its true, testing more than one time for an experiment should just be required. What if they found the cure for cancer and didn't test it more than once and tried it and it failed killing millions of people. And all they had to do was try it again to make sure it was the same result more than once. Besides someones ego getting bigger, what is okay about doing only one test? I believe it better to be 120% sure that your answer is right with a hundred different tests than to be 99% sure with only one.