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‘Subjective beliefs’ over ‘evidence.’
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Biden Admin Cited ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ as Reason To Block Oil and Gas Leases
Watchdog files scientific integrity complaint after admin prioritizes ‘subjective beliefs’ over ‘evidence’
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When the Biden administration stepped in last year to block seven oil and gas leases in Alaska, it said it was doing so in part to recognize the “Indigenous Knowledge” of the Native Americans who originally inhabited the land.
The move was indicative of the administration’s embrace, in late 2022, of “Indigenous Knowledge”—that is, Native American folk wisdom—as part of their scientific assessments. so when Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced on Sept. 6 2023, that the entire United States Arctic Ocean was off limits to new oil and gas leasing, and canceled seven oil and gas leases issued by former president Donald Trump after a review, she cited “the best available science” and said the decision was also a “recognition of the Indigenous Knowledge of the original stewards of this area.”
That announcement has prompted a scientific integrity complaint by Protect the Public’s Trust, a watchdog group. “Indigenous Knowledge,” the complaint says, privileges “subjective beliefs over and above evidence derived from the application of the scientific method.”
“The American public can rightly hold serious concerns that the Biden administration’s decision making, through the use of Indigenous Knowledge, is susceptible to manipulation without even the pretense of adhering to scientific principles,” Protect the Public’s Trust director Michael Chamberlain wrote in the complaint.
Haaland’s remarks are the latest example of how “Indigenous Knowledge,” a pseudoscience which posits native people possess unique insights into the laws of the universe, has pervaded the federal government. A variety of federal agencies have hosted “Indigenous Knowledge” seminars. And Health and Human Services is poised to order all of its sub agencies, which include the Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Disease Control, to incorporate “Indigenous Knowledge” into its decision making at some point this year.
The Department of the Interior did not respond to a request for comment.
Biden administration officials, in memos and public records, conflate “Indigenous Knowledge” with the scientific method. Federal agencies, White House records state, are encouraged to consider the “spiritual wisdom” of native peoples when issuing new rules or regulations.
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14 Comments
2 months ago
Tell me again how we live in the age of ‘reason’ …
… and not a dark age of Atheist lunacy?
D
2 months ago
Reply to
turtlebrat
They have always been unhappy at losing their slaves, so their plan is to make all Americans slaves, but you won’t be called a slave. You will be an ELOI and when Pelosi, Bill Gates, Schummer and others get hungry you’ll be invited over to feed the Morlocks. Gates won’t be eating bugs, he’ll be eating ELOI. After all he says the earth had too many people when it hit 500 million!
2 months ago
Reply to
turtlebrat
Sora$$ not demonising sleepy Joe buden like he did Trump. That means traitor sora$$ likes USA to be in shit deep chaos. Good one!
NOT.
2 months ago
Same in Australia where multi billion dollar mining and gas exploration projects are held up by activists getting local aborigines to claim some ‘ancient knowledge’ or ‘creation stories’ that only they know about and nobody ever mentioned before. This happens regularly despite the fact the original indigenous inhabitants were small family sized groups of hunter gatherers with no written language or tools other than stone age wood artifacts and stone chips. Their Dreamtime stories and so called traditional activities like Welcome to Country ceremonies have all been invented over the past 50 years or so and by a small group of local people encouraged by green /left activists. There cold not have been a common continent wide system of beliefs and myths because they lived thousands of kilometres apart and never knew about each other’s groups – often when they did meet a strange group they started fighting. None of it is credible, scientific or showing any special knowledge of the environment but on and on it goes.
2 months ago
Reply to
Andre
It fits the leftists/socialists narrative – to conjure up any half baked nonsense they can come up with to further their aim of ” globalism ” IE: World domination –
2 months ago
Is that Joey dressed as an Indian at the top of the page, or is that my state’s US Senator, Lie-awatha Warren ??
2 months ago
If you want to smile, please accept this pun: “Indiana Jones and the Great CIRCLE” vs “Indian Joe and the Great CIRCUS.
Do you like the idea?
D
2 months ago
Just one more way, that they debase the indigenous culture…
2 months ago
He’s the male Elizabth Warren.
2 months ago
More evidence of the lunatics running hne asylum –
D
2 months ago
Is he the son of Andrew Jackson, the founder of the Democratic Party, who caused the Trail of Tears and began the Civil War? I was talking to someone in Eastern Europe by ham radio and he had panned to immigrate to the USA, but heard იოსებ სტალინი, opps, sorry, Joseph Stalin was president of the USA so he decided not to come to the USA.
It was the founder of the Democratic Party, Andrew Jackson, who caused the Trail of Tears and stole about two million acres from the native Americans. The Democrats are the land stealers. Read Dinesh D’Souza’s book or see the film “Hillary’s America, The Secret History of the Democratic Party.” The only thing Dinesh does not bring up is that it was a cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Clinton Roosevelt who is the actual author of the Communist Manifesto.
