I, Napoleon

14 Replies to “I, Napoleon”

1. Well if the First nations people weren’t so healthy I’d agree with you.

2. So at Easter it’s important to note that I’m
   constantly told that my God doesn’t exist and I’m a fool, but the very same folks tell us that we definitely need to follow the ways of the forest gods and wind spirits to make our lives better.

   RNrn

   1. False idols come in all varieties … Now I am told I MUST bow and scrape before people who pretend they have changed their immutable biology. I refuse to prostrate myself before insanity. Sorry. Nothing personal.

3. Crud….I just cleaned out the garages and I finally have room for everything. Now, you’re telling me I need to start raising leeches. Well, on a positive note, I do have a couple car batteries sitting around now, and that electrical shock treatment isn’t just going to do itself.

4. indigenous wisdom has been the most overrated thing since government help

   1. Indeed. If the indigenous were truly wise they should have foreseen the folly of becoming dependent on government help.

      (This is certainly not to suggest they are alone in that folly.)

   2. As is indigenous stewardship.

5. “I see dead people”

6. Only 2 eyes? That’s gonna piss off Hindus that rely on their third eye for the health benefits…

7. oh ya.
   but then they get a serious diagnosis and go all mother teresa.
   if ya know what l mean.

8. I told the witch doctor, I wasn’t feeling well
   And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do
   He told me:

   Ooh, eeh, ooh, ah, ah, ting, tang, walla, walla, bing, bang
   Ooh, eeh, ooh, ah, ah, ting, tang, walla, bing, bang

   1. Put the lime in the coconut and call me in the mornng.

9. Good grief. Let’s take the first “feature”—author positionality. This concept already exists in science-based medicine with the expectation for disclosure of conflicts of interest. What’s described in the paper is inappropriate inferences based on generalization from people’s personalities. Rather, the essence of scientific progress is vigorous debate within a college of conflicting viewpoints. The ascendancy of scientific method arises from ignoring personality and focussing on empirical evidence and methods of reliable causal inference, which ratchets in effectiveness as the cultural institution develops and evolves over generations. Indeed, it seems most impediments and distortions from good science have been the result of personality cults that lock in to dogmatic paradigms and block progress.

   Indigenous knowledge failed to ratchet enhancement of methodology, much less complex, hierarchical, multi-staged engineering. The burden of evidentiary proof that such deviations from methods of success unprecedented in human history would improve empirical knowledge formation is on those who would jeopardize the success of 4 centuries of increasing powers for knowledge discovery and development since the publication of Bacon’s Novum Organum. The kowtowing of science to politics is yet another contemporary variant of Lysenkoism.

10. It’s ‘faith gendering’…. same concept as faith healing.
    You can believe in them all you want, but neither is likely to improve your condition.