Biden WH hosted lecture on ‘indigenous knowledge’ at 2022 UN conference in Egypt: report

The speaker, Chadian activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, bashed western scientific methods and suggested the world would be better off if more decisions were made via traditional ways of knowing.

"Science is very important, we do recognize that," Ibrahim said, "but science must recognize the knowledge of indigenous peoples as also important."

She went on to suggest that her grandmother was "the best application that I do have," arguing that while in the west people rely on technologically advanced weather apps, in her culture the elders can predict when it's going to rain.

"I'm so sorry you went to the school for maybe for 20 years to get your PhDs," Ibrahim told the audience. "My grandmother was born on those [sic] knowledge, she got it from her own grand-grand-grand-mother. It is hundreds and thousands of years of knowledge."

Western technology, she claimed, had only really existed for a hundred years.

According to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, the lecture was organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, two members of which spoke after Ibrahim that day.

"Science will always be at the forefront of my administration — and these world-renowned scientists will ensure everything we do is grounded in science, facts, and the truth," Biden said after elevating the agency to his Cabinet in January 2021.

As the Free Beacon reports, following the UN summit the White House released a statement announcing that the federal government "recognizes the valuable contributions of the indigenous knowledge that tribal nations and indigenous peoples have gained and passed down from generation to generation."

The statement went on to claim that indigenous knowledge was "a valid form of evidence for inclusion in Federal policy, research and decision making."