Let’s choose our words more carefully

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Let’s choose our words more carefully

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University of Auckland senior lecturer Emily Parke and Dan Hikuroa make a call for people to choose their words more carefully when discussing mātauranga Māori and science, following a controversy ignited by a letter to the Listener signed by seven University of Auckland professors and claiming indigenous knowledge can advance scientific knowledge but is not itself science

Our point, instead, is that questions like “what is science?” or “is mātauranga science?” could be asking about any number of different ideas Res, Twitter Corballis, Michael Corbellis mentioned in a tweet on 3 August by Newshub, defending his stance