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If you mix 1 tsp each turmeric, neem, ghee, ginseng, ginkgo, mistletoe, cordiceps, and ayahuasca in a can of Coca Cola and drink it on a full moon, while reciting all your pets’ names, you’ll directly perceive this truth too
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Kidding aside, it’s exhausting the way these self-appointed decolonizers want to muddy all useful categories into nebulous mush in the name of taking down hegemonic patriarchies or whatever.
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Indigenous knowledge can be a distinct useful category and epistemology without trying to co-opt the category of “science” to try and access the perceived cultural power affordances
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In India bullshit “Vedic science” is already a toxic contaminant of grade school education. Study it on its own terms as an interesting category with much to offer, sure. Don’t create incoherent fusions for political gain.
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As a strong Feyeraband-Lakatos methodological anarchist I’m actually highly disinclined to attribute any special epistemic authority to “science” that’s worth lusting after anyway. It’s just the “indigenous knowledge” of 19/20th century globalized modernity.
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Literally the only reason to make up bullshit equivalences like “indigenous knowledge is science” is to reach for the reins of institutional political power.
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Will you allow some indigenous knowledge comes from an iterative process of trial and error and observations of nature that are science?
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You’re sneaking in a simplistic high school definition of science as observation/trial and error, to support an already ill-posed comparison. I recommend Feyerabend’s Against Method as a better basis for any comparisons you want to make