Feds Replace Science With Indigenous Knowledge

The ostensible purpose of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is to provide weather forecasts. The actual purpose under Democrat rule — as in every other nook and cranny of the federal leviathan — is to ram moonbattery down our throats. This means accurate weather forecasts are to be subordinated to savage superstition, or as they call it these days, indigenous knowledge:

The agency, according to a press release, signed a formal memorandum of understanding with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium to “advance Indigenous Knowledge” and “achieve strong climate resilience for our tribal nations.”

In favor of moonbattery, the Biden Regime rejects the scientific method:

Biden issued a memo in November 2022 that directed more than two dozen federal agencies to apply “Indigenous Knowledge” to “decision making, research, and policies.” The memo called on agencies to speak with “spiritual leaders” and reject “methodological dogma.”

To hell with science. Something is true if nonwhites from less advanced cultures say it’s true. To disagree would be racist.

“Indigenous Knowledge has made it possible for Indigenous Nations to persist and thrive for millennia,” NOAA administrator Rick Spinrad said in a statement. “These knowledge systems are needed more than ever to inform NOAA and our nation’s approach to environmental stewardship.”

An added advantage of this approach is that if the rain predicted by a shaman doesn’t materialize, federal bureaucrats can just hop around shaking a bone at the sky to correct the situation. Rain dances are still practiced by Amerindians.

More alarmingly:

The FDA and CDC in February finalized revisions to their scientific integrity guidelines to include “Indigenous Knowledge.”

On the positive side, witch doctors don’t need to spend years in medical school.

Those new guidelines, which impact how those agencies propose new regulations, call for the incorporation of “non-traditional modes of science” as part of their “support” for “equity, justice, and trust.” The guidelines go on to say that “issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are an integral component of the entire scientific process.”

The issue is never the issue. With Democrats in control, the issue is always moonbattery.

On a tip from Stormfax. Hat tip: Western Journal.

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