Which is good, because I was not awed by the author's name. I think very highly of Feynman and might have been swayed to doubt my judgement rather than my experience. Guess this is why blind peer review is an awesome thing.

Of course I'm possibly too dumb to appreciate majestic poetry. Or it worked in 1974 in a way that fails now. Or we read different articles.

It's actually a writing style I use myself - fragmented but with purposeful "abductive" reasoning. But to pull it off you have to deliver a cadence.

A bit of bad writing in no way diminishes my opinion of someone I respect as a scientist and teacher, but humanises him more. I see him as an very authentic person and it brings me a smile to think of Richard Feynman penning this and, as we all do, reading it back a few weeks later and saying "WTF was I thinking?". Smart people are capable of missing the mark.

lutusp posted this copy of the actual article

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

The one at

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/cargo-cult-science

is junk - a disordered mish-mash of extracts from the real article.