The science establishment is continuing its drift into mysticism regarding environmental issues. Our latest example comes from Nature — the most prestigious science journal in the world — extolling an Australian environmental scientist who lists a river as her co-author on science papers.

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Elite science is besotted with the “knowing” of indigenous people — no matter that it is often an expression of mystical religious belief. Sure enough, the subject of the story is an indigenous scientist named Anne Poelina:

Conservationist Anne Poelina has a deep connection to the fresh water that runs through the dry red-rock landscape of the Kimberley region in Western Australia. Poelina identifies as a Nyikina Warrwa woman, and her people are the Traditional Custodians of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River. . . . Poelina’s interdisciplinary work at the Nulungu Research Institute of the University of Notre Dame in Broome, Australia, focuses on health, land and water conservation, climate change, and law and environmental policy and combines Indigenous traditional knowledge with Western science. Her interest in the Martuwarra is both personal and professional.

Conservationist Anne Poelina has a deep connection to the fresh water that runs through the dry red-rock landscape of the Kimberley region in Western Australia. Poelina identifies as a Nyikina Warrwa woman, and her people are the Traditional Custodians of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River. . . .

Poelina’s interdisciplinary work at the Nulungu Research Institute of the University of Notre Dame in Broome,........

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