Rescinding Science in Favor of Indigenous Wisdom

There is no blessing that European civilization has bestowed upon the world that leftists do not want to rescind. This includes science.

Check this out:

Indigenous Peoples’ expertise has been excluded from settler-colonial and Western systems of scientific inquiry practices, land classification, and relations to the data about Indigenous homelands in digital environments. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) reaffirms Indigenous Peoples’ collective rights to self-determination in the application of their political, economic, social, and cultural knowledge, but settler colonial institutions have largely failed to uphold these rights as they apply in digital environments and Earth science research.

The extract above did not appear in a college newspaper editorial written by a clueless freshman. It was published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications. The peer-reviewed article argues that Earth Sciences should be conducted from the viewpoint of Stone Age savages because “historical injustices”:

As climate and biodiversity crises intensify, Earth Science institutions and researchers globally are racing to collect more data in an attempt to support research on drivers and responses to environmental change that can inform responses, risk communications, and adaptations. However, continuing this work from the same settler colonial framework that led to the current conditions will only perpetuate historical injustices and extractive practices.

Note the predictable reference to the nonexistent climate crisis that is blamed on settler colonialists (a.k.a. white people) and that leftists have been using as a wrecking ball against economic freedom and our standard of living.

This is moonbattery, not science. It is motivated out of an urge not to understand but to destroy.

If current academic trends prevail, “science” in the future will be conducted by waiving feathers and chanting incantations. Anyone unhappy with the results will be denounced as a racist and punished.

On a tip from Steve T. Hat tip: National Review.

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