Cargo cult

Disclaimer
Most Liberapedians (all except 'one', of course) would endorse the belief that all religions and religious beliefs revolving around worship of deities in the world constitute cargo cults.

What is a cargo cult?
'Cargo cult' is a term that sociologists used to describe religious movements that appeared throughout the Pacific in the middle of the 20th century. Cargo cults often revolve around attempts to secure cargo from ships or planes by elaborate rituals and practices. Many of these rituals can often involve elaborate practices such as mock military parades and the construction of mock airstrips and even full-scale sized replicas of airplanes. Some cargo cults even worship Prince Phillip of the United Kingdom as a god. It is generally accepted that cargo cults have appeared as a response to culture shock when primitive island natives had limited contact with more technologically advanced civilisations. Not understanding how other civilisations cobtained their material benefits and technological advancement, some societies by observing Westerners eventually came upon the conclusion that in order to secure cargo and the material benefits contained therein, they had to emulate the practices of the foreigners who came upon their shores.

"Cargo cult" as an epithet
As a general rule, the term can also be used as a perjorative term to label any "scientific" idea as plain buncombe. For instance, terms such as "voodoo economics" and "cargo cult" have been used to deprecate conservative ideas on macroeconomics that backfire because of their inherent instability and the lack of research that goes into them, mirroring the same lack of substantiation to justify the religious practices in real life.