(I don't want to dismiss peoples knowledge but talk about the scientic method). But there is a difference between science and "peoples knowledge". Accepting th

(I don't want to dismiss peoples knowledge but talk about the scientic method). But there is a difference between science and "peoples knowledge". Accepting things that people say is not science. One would have hoped for the authors at the Smithsonian to have a better understanding of science. While the article makes wide claims of "dismissal" it doesn't provide any examples of wide spread dismissal E.g. in papers. I especially liked "[Or] we can say that the Western scientists finally caught up with Traditional Knowledge after several thousand years." If we assume science starts with Aristotle, it would be ~2k years of science, if Aristotle was ignoring this Traditional Knowledge. If we assume that scientists started with the "arrival" in Australia, it's 200 years.