07-24-2018, 07:38 AM
Doctors and dentists offer expert, sometime dangerous, services to the public at large. Native people do no such thing. Their obligation to justify and explain themselves is much less.
Kealoha Pisciotta has also led the fight against the TMT. Her arguments against it have been based on personal statements about specific Hawaiian cultural and religious practices. I would contend that she needs to prove a basis for those statements, either in historical fact, or in existing long term cultural practices that have been observered before she became a practitioner (otherwise she may have just made up the practice). If she can’t do that, she is dangerous, perhaps not like an impostor dentist hovering over an individual in a dentist chair, but to society at large by making personally biased, inaccurate, and blatently false claims, claims which are then believed by others because they’re willing to accept nothing more than her word, without any other proof that she is an expert practitioner.
Is the jury still deadlocked? The odds that natural climate variability can account for the magnitude of the temperature changes over the course of the satellite record are roughly five in a million, researchers report. - Science, July 19, 2018.
Kealoha Pisciotta has also led the fight against the TMT. Her arguments against it have been based on personal statements about specific Hawaiian cultural and religious practices. I would contend that she needs to prove a basis for those statements, either in historical fact, or in existing long term cultural practices that have been observered before she became a practitioner (otherwise she may have just made up the practice). If she can’t do that, she is dangerous, perhaps not like an impostor dentist hovering over an individual in a dentist chair, but to society at large by making personally biased, inaccurate, and blatently false claims, claims which are then believed by others because they’re willing to accept nothing more than her word, without any other proof that she is an expert practitioner.
Is the jury still deadlocked? The odds that natural climate variability can account for the magnitude of the temperature changes over the course of the satellite record are roughly five in a million, researchers report. - Science, July 19, 2018.
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