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Maori science beats woke myths

We need to return to empirical evidence

8 January 2022

9:00 AM

8 January 2022

9:00 AM

Every community has those who are designated wise — sometimes able to anticipate imminent catastrophe.  For example, back in the 1500s, some in rural England and France would suspend dead birds — specifically kingfishers — from silken threads that purportedly acted as natural weathercocks. It was thought that the dead kingfisher was able to anticipate approaching storms and turn its breast into the wind.

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