Insanity!-----Academics: ‘Flourishing forests’ of indigenous scientists can ‘transform’ and ‘decolonize’ science

Academics: ‘Flourishing forests’ of indigenous scientists can ‘transform’ and ‘decolonize’ science - DAVE HUBER - ASSOCIATE EDITOR

"A year and a half ago, Oxford University Professor Emeritus Richard Dawkins took to task the Royal Society of New Zealand for its “appalling failure” to defend science.
But … defend it from what?
The New Zealand government was making a push to utilize “matauranga,” the indigenous Māori knowledge system, in the country’s science courses.

According to Kiwi academics, matauranga is a way “to critique the academic disciplines of Western science” which (they claim) “are a colonial construct within the global colonising agenda.”
Matauranga includes premises such as the forest god Tane is the “creator of humans” and all forest plants and animals, and that it rains when the goddess Papatuanuku “sheds tears.”

Others might dub such stuff “faith...