There seems to be this established view that science is not holistic, which is just wrong. All science is underpinned by a set of fundamentals in physics and mathematics, and so is connected, and science itself has been studying interconnections for ...
Not really true. Lots of cultures built stuff with no underlying theory, just trial and error, which isn't science. But yes, the Romans did have theories that underpinned much of their engineering so that was likely science. Early Mathematics is also ...
You are conflating science with service delivery. This is a well established principle in medicine - you use culturally appropriate delivery to help uptake of interventions with proven efficacy. This is the problem with Ronga Maori - the adherents don't ...
Two points here. Why do you assume Maori students will even know what Mātauranga Māori is? This is an assumption that proponents are making but all my Maori whanau have no understanding of MM and don't care about it, so I think this is a stretch at best. ...
No, the definition of science is clear, it's Mātauranga Māori advocates that are blurring the lines and trying to push in non-scientific, spiritualism like Mauri.
Two points here. Why do you assume Maori students will even know what Mātauranga Māori is? This is an assumption that proponents are making but all my Maori whanau have no understanding of MM so I think this is a stretch at best. Secondly, yes it's not a ...
I think that the MoE 'experts' themselves don't have the first clue about the epistemology of science. E.g. pushing Mauri into Chemistry. Coyne himself cites a post from LinkedIn from a Matauranga Maori advisor to the MoE who seems to believe that because ...
You are putting words in his mouth. That's people celebrating their cultural achievements, not science being cultural. Science is a tool, methodology and set of results, performed by humans. You are conflating the two things. Science will incorporate ...
Thanks for the welcome. The epistemology of science is fascinating and hard to cover in posts like these, but I'll have a go responding to your questions, which broadly fall in to this area. The signature change in the Reformation that really established ...
Sorry no, because there's either no underlying theory or the theory is religion i.e. the gods created it. Trial and error is not science. This is a common misconception but just not true, otherwise a cooking recipe would be science.
So true. This is a repeat of the science wars of the 90's. The postmodernists just won't let it go, but they can't see the error in their logic. Just because science is a human system, subject to human foibles and cultural differences, doesn't mean it ...
Totally agree. Lots of playing the man here (Coyne), not playing the ball, and some considerable confusion and ignorance of what science actually is. The issue is that Matauranga Maori advocates are trying to cloak themselves in the mana of science without...
"but in practice it means that only the dominant (Pakeha) cultural perspectives are taught as valid". Nope. What has been validated as scientific is taught, no matter what culture created it.
But for the most part pre-scientific cultures didn't do science because there was no underlying theory, there was no attempt to replicate results or try and disprove them, and they were grounded in religion. Just because it's knowledge, doesn't make it ...
The issue of Mātauranga Māori being considered Science is a clear case of categorical error as to what science is and how it operates. The category error arises because Mātauranga Māori advocates are stating that something that is information or knowledge ...
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