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I respect Tina Ngata's work and I have found many of her articles insightful. But she's referring to the social institutions that have grown up around the people and organisations that do scientific work, not to science the system.
Observations that those who benefit from power structures can impose knowledge systems are a dime a dozen, but here's another one: what if it's the knowledge system that gave them the power?
What if societies that adopt an attitude of the best explanation wins, and if observation contradicts our traditional knowledge then we should assume that the traditional knowledge was wrong tend to succeed? What if societies that privilege belief over reality tend to lose? Boy, what a fucked up idea.
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