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In Alfred Bester's "The Stars my Destination", shipwrecked astronaut Gully Foyle is rescued by the "Scientific People" who are the descendants of a colony of researchers marooned generations earlier on an isolated asteroid. They have preserved the nomenclature and trappings of scientific method, but no understanding of what those words and books and procedures really mean. They are essentially a cargo cult in white lab coats, with barely enough technical knowledge left to keep their colony airtight.