It's contemptible when wokies want us to take these people's "science" as somehow equivalent to our own.
What they fail to understand is that any worthwhile knowledge they had (plants that had analgesic properties, eating fruit to be prevent some diseases during long sea voyages) as long since just been acquired, studied and understood and is part of "our" science now.
Everything else we didn't roll into our own stuff was garbage. So if "ancestral knowledge" now says something opposite to modern science, modern science is most likely the right answer.
What they fail to understand is that any worthwhile knowledge they had (plants that had analgesic properties, eating fruit to be prevent some diseases during long sea voyages) as long since just been acquired, studied and understood and is part of "our" science now.
Everything else we didn't roll into our own stuff was garbage. So if "ancestral knowledge" now says something opposite to modern science, modern science is most likely the right answer.
That has more to do with ideology; science is falsifiable-- ideology isn't, and that's the crux of the current issue.
Two other cruxes are:
(1) we're sort of running out of science to do (2) the science that we've done seems less and less meaningful