Over-rule science in the Bien admin...killing commercial projects.
The Biden administration could use "indigenous knowledge" to jettison a critical mining proposal projected to yield billions of dollars in precious metals used for renewable energy projects.
Department staff consulted with tribal leaders in an environmental review of the Ambler Access Project, that leads to copper and zinc deposits, considered to be some of the largest in the country. Those two metals are used in a variety of consumer products, such as batteries and wind turbines.
The White House released a draft of its environmental review for the project, which is expected to cost $2 billion, last October. The over 1,000-page draftcontains at least 14 references to "indigenous knowledge," a pseudoscientific belief that posits native peoples possess unique insights about the workings of the universe.
"Many Indigenous ethics and values … include not harvesting more than one needs; sharing one's harvest and respecting the animals to ensure future success; and waiting for the first of a caribou herd to pass by the community before hunting from the herd," the draft report states.
The U of Minn Med School made their graduating med students recite a pledge acknowledging that indigenous medicine was equal in validity to Western White Medicine. The may have dropped the Hippocratic oath during this White Coat ceremony.