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10 days agoWhat I appreciate is the overwhelmingly evidence he puts forward that indigenous peoples did not practise science.
Oh wait he just goes on about the history of ‘western achievement’, and makes no point of comparison to prove some science was not happening in indigenous cultures.
Also, why is an economist given a platform on this?
The onus of proving a point in an article of their construction should be on the author.
Anyway, here’s an article: https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/indigenous-science/.
Another: https://blog.qm.qld.gov.au/2012/08/01/science-principles-in-traditional-aboriginal-australia/
A website of resources (Australian council of deans of science): https://www.acds.edu.au/teaching-learning/indigenous-science/
Food detoxification by indigenous people: https://www.scienceflip.com.au/subjects/chemistry/equilibriumandacidreactions/learn10/
https://scienceready.com.au/pages/aboriginal-detoxification-methods?srsltid=AfmBOop0v07LPvhyOAoNohVwoF6XHWgw-XgvskBWCe-Ua2Vf2iQmk4JG
If you’re after an artifact with a written hypothesis from an exclusively spoken language society, I can’t help you there.