Biden Freezes Alaskan Oil Drilling; Interior Secretary Haaland Appeals to "Indigenous Knowledge"

As I've said before, the insanity of the PC left is largely grounded in its radical and relativistic epistemology and metaphysics. They have a grab bag of crazy epistemic theories they appeal to as need: skepticism, relativism, "social constructionism," introspective infallibilism, standpoint epistemology, appeals to "lived experience".

   Of course they don't even mean indigenous knowledge... What they mean is "indigenous" belief. Science will take knowledge wherever it can find it. Undoubtedly less-advanced cultures know some things we don't And we hoover up those epistemic tidbits. But they seldom know things relevant to science that we don't already know. What the left really wants is to be able to (a) piously declare their reverence for "indigenous" groups and their beliefs, and (b) appeal those beliefs as convenient. 

   I can virtually guarantee you that whatever they actually appealed to here was some spiritual hoo-ha--indigenous bullshit--not "indigenous "knowledge"."