I believe Magical Studies should be a distinct branch of psychology/sociology/anthropology, with its own sub-fields, including:

  • economics
  • placebo effect
  • memetics
  • religious studies
  • somatopsychic and psychosomatic phenomena
  • faith exercise science
  • servitorology
  • parogenetics
  • spellcrafting
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[–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

During the Aboriginal Dreamtime, the stories say that the world was colder. There was less water, and the coast was further away. At the time of colonisation, these were fairy tales. Today, science agrees with myth. Those stories are so old, they come from the ice age. The glaciers were bigger and colder and the ocean was shallower. Australia's landmass was bigger. The continental shelf was the continent.

Two-Way Science is when the scientific community and the Indigenous community share knowledge and work together. It's pretty new, because the scientific community were pretty full of ourselves until recently. Hopefully science can progress faster now that we're asking the old experts for help. And hopefully we can help the public see that "woo" is very scientific.

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