most any competent 'Witch Doctor' (as we are fond of pejoratively labelling the shaman) knew it cold, for centuries. Current ones know a lot of other stuff too, though they lack the vocabulary and Boolean logic of Big Corporate Science: so their er paradigms remain mostly unsought as PhD fodder. Grant, advancement fodder.

Well, not entirely.. as we all see the rainforests disappearing through Biz-style commerce + inevitable greed + unchecked population growth; as we strongly *suspect* that this may be a Horrendously Bad Thing:

there are indeed some researchers beginning to ask and actually Listen attentively.. postponing the lecture about "how everything works".. until the wrap-up. (A couple appear even to have learned to just Shut Up and Listen, but it is really *hard*, given their training.)

Of course though: the 'interest' is solely about Intere$t of pharm-chem to patent YAN Winner for symptom treatment - not ever is it to explore the actual paradigm and the results that has produced in these primitive cultures, over centuries. Pharm-chem's rainforest interest is not about "what else might be in process of disappearing forever?" - it is about extirpating a few Winners to apply the same-old way we find so profitable.

Hubris kills. And Western hubris is Numero Uno by design.


Ashton