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Message: [QUOTE="Makwa, post: 951158, member: 27402"] Yes of course, particularly with regard to Indigenous knowledge, but academic science is often self-indulgent and limited by its own (often political) agenda, not that of the world around. It is unfortunate that most people liken the word 'science' to 'god;' they are missing a lot of their own lives. With regards to the phenomenon I am describing, most people here will seem to believe what they read (science); not the world around. 'Science' as an authority and institution we have contrived can lead us astray. For example, what we all read every day: "Scientists say that..." and people buy it. Nothing wrong with science, but not questioning the origins of its empirical assumptions is a mistake. And its arrogance in dismissing Indigenous, folk or common knowledge is a fundamental flaw: I am talking western (Eurocentric) science here. [/QUOTE]