Did you read the rest of the article or just the first few paragraphs? The rest of it straight up describes the exact practices recounted in Feynman's telling o

Did you read the rest of the article or just the first few paragraphs? The rest of it straight up describes the exact practices recounted in Feynman's telling of the story, including "a cult of people who think of these cargo as magical gifts" as you call it. Yes, these came later according to TFA, and yes, there are dark undertones and overtones throughout, but if you read the article I'm not sure how you can argue that Feynman's version bears no similarity to fact. It's basically in TFA verbatim. The only thing they really claim Feynman was missing was context.