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A comment on Western science catching up to Indigenous Traditional Knowledge. Parent comment

Re:Western science catching up to Indigenous Traditional Kno... by jandrese on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:22PM (#16478059)
Filtering out which parts are factual and which parts are superstitious nonsense is where the science comes in. That and discovering the mechanism by which the old way works. There's a lot of knowledge hidden in ancient wisdom, but it comes encrusted with a thick shell of bullshit.
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Re:Western science catching up to Indigenous Traditional Kno... by Lorkki on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @07:27AM (#16482511)
> Filtering out which parts are factual and which parts are superstitious nonsense is where the science comes in.

Literally, and in the historical sense. That's pretty much how the Royal Society got started.

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