Nature touts indigenous knowledge as coequal to “Western” (aka “modern”) science – Why Evolution Is True

March 24, 2025

One of the areas that Luana Maroja and I highlighted in our “Ideological Subversion of Biology” article, which analyzed six misguided statements about biology made in the service of ideology rather than scientific truth, was the last one:

6. Indigenous “ways of knowing” are equivalent to modern science and should be respected and taught as such.

Now both of us believe that indigenous people can produce and have produced knowledge, even though it’s usually of a restricted nature: trial-and-error truths limited to the geographic area that a group inhabits. But ideology, which has bought into the “authority of the sacred victim” mindset, has gone beyond that, as I’ve often written about New Zealand.

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