[ May 17, 2024 ]
“The [Biden administration] memo directed agencies to ‘include Indigenous Knowledge as an aspect of the best available science.’”
This was an inevitable consequence of leftwing totalitarianism. It is philosophy that defines and establishes the epistemological criteria to guide human knowledge in general and specific sciences in particular. “Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical (particularly epistemological) base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.” Ayn Rand.
‘This Is Extremely Dangerous’: Inside the Biden Administration’s Push To Swap Science for ‘Indigenous Knowledge’
The White House urges federal agencies to consider tribal religion alongside scientific studies
Story continues below advertisementBy: Joseph Simonson, The Epoch Times, September 6, 2023:
Just five days before President Joe Biden entered the White House, his team handed the Washington Post an exclusive story: Biden would keep his campaign promise of “following the science” by turning the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy into a cabinet-level agency.
On Nov. 30, 2022, that office did something rather unscientific: It issued a memo directing more than two dozen federal agencies to apply “Indigenous Knowledge” to “research, policies, and decision making.” The 42-page document encourages the agencies to speak with “spiritual leaders” and reject “methodological dogma” when crafting policy as a way to remedy injustices against Native peoples.
Federal regulators are to consider the folk wisdom of the Comanche Nation, for instance, just as they consider lab results when trying to determine the pH level of rain. Long relegated to university campuses and fringe activist groups, the idea that Native people have a privileged understanding of the physical and metaphysical world is now the official view of the United States government.
With nearly 600 federally recognized Native tribes in the United States alone, there is no single definition of Indigenous Knowledge. Defenders and critics of the idea agree that, broadly speaking, it constitutes the traditions, stories, and religious rituals passed down orally through generations of Native Americans and aborigines in places like Australia.
This investigation is based on a Washington Free Beacon review of previously unreported federal documents, hours of recorded lectures by federal officials, and interviews with nearly a dozen experts, many of whom declined to speak publicly due to fear of reprisal. Together, the materials show how a once-fringe theory made its way to the heart of the federal government and shine a light on the Democratic Party’s struggle to balance its commitment to “the science” with its commitment to “inclusivity.”
The Biden administration is not the first national government to embrace Indigenous Knowledge. Canada began incorporating Indigenous Knowledge into its policymaking in the latter half of the 20th century, often with counterproductive results. A 2006 Canadian academic assessment concluded that “the acceptance of spiritual beliefs as ‘knowledge’ by governments was dangerous because it could be used to justify any activity, including actions that were environmentally destructive.”
On Jan. 16, 2021, the Biden administration officially elevated the Office of Science and Technology Policy to the cabinet level. Biden said in his announcement that the office would help to restore “faith in America’s place on the frontier of science and discovery.”
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14 Comments
8 months ago
Everything that this administration is pushing and has no REAL scientific backing. Climate change aka Man made global warming is the biggest Lie ever. They used it to get rid of incandescent Light Bulbs, Gas Furnaces, Gas Cars, Gas Stoves, Ceiling Fans and anything else they can get rid of that makes life easier. They also are using climate change to destroy our beef and food supply. They need to be Stopped. They are now using FAKE science to push the Franken Shot, Face diaper mandates and probably “Social Distancing”.
8 months ago
The Ayn Rand Institute said civilization and savagery cannot co exist; one has to go. Self hater and Islamic terrorist apologist, Jonathan LeVine, called this genocide. The poor people of Maui, who didn’t have water for the fire because the bureaucrat in charge of water claimed water was a holy element, would know what the Ayn Rand Institute meant and would probably agree with it.
8 months ago
It’s the same here in Australia. The deification of a bunch of prehistoric Stone Age hunter gatherers who couldn’t even boil water as ‘Rousseaunian noble savages’ has infiltrated every level of govt policy and the education system.
The reality is that traditional aboriginal life was short ugly and brutal. After 30, 40 (the latest lie is 60) thousand years the population was a mere 300,000. It was kept low by starvation, warfare and the widespread practice of killing children and the elderly. Often followed by eating them.
Women were chattels to be traded to strangers, and to beaten or killed with impunity. On reaching puberty young girls were ritually raped by the old men.
On 14 October we will vote in a referendum on whether to give them their own race-based parliament.
Our communist Labor Party has carefully studied Osambo’s strategy of divide and conquer.
This same pack of traitors is destroying our economy with massive “renewable energy “ projects, while closing reliable coal fired power stations ahead of schedule.
The same pack of radicals is trying to force through total government censorship via “misinformation and disinformation” legislation.
And unfortunately we don’t have the Second Amendment to fall back on.
G*d help us
D
8 months ago
Reply to
Sir Peter
they can say the same about us—no culture is inherently good or bad—but like a pendulum moves back & forth…
8 months ago
Reply to
garry pollack
Crap. Some cultures are way better than others. It’s cultural relativism like yours which causes this leftoid insanity
D
8 months ago
Superstition and myth over science.
D
8 months ago
Going down the same path as Australia where we have politicians and ‘academics’ claiming the aboriginal knowledge of the land is important to the environment. This is because about 500 widely dispersed small tribal groups who rarely contacted each other apparently know all about the environment. Over the thousands of years they existed here they never managed to develop any agriculture (don’t believe the made up stories by fake indigenous writers), build any permanent structures or invent any means of boiling water. They burnt out vast tracts of the bush to flush out game and moved on leaving today’s Australia as a virtual monoculture. But supposedly they know all about the land.
D
8 months ago
Reply to
Andre
our farming began w/aboriginal knowledge—U won’t find rice or wheat growing naturally! & the Peruvians were genius’ at growing potatoes—anywhere!
8 months ago
Reply to
garry pollack
So it’s ok to rip out the still-beating hearts of children to appease the weather gods if you are good at growing spuds? Gimme a break. You are insane
8 months ago
They’re swapping Fraud-ci for “Indigenous Science” ?? Fraud-ci had stated that he “is science”…
8 months ago
Is Gary the pollack a human or an AI bot?
If the former then there no ‘I’ , artificial or real
