Going too far. It is hilarious what types of preposterous propositions pampered academic aborigine-groupies can from hanging out with miserable backward recluses. Certainly, no culture or language should be forcibly exterminated as in the middle ages, but some deserve a natural demise. Of course, they should be studied; if not for what “accidental” knowledge they possess then as a lesson, as to how humanity can degenerate. The short- live diseased natives the good professor studied would have gladly traded places and gone home to his Volvo, Jacuzzi and plasma TV and get de-liced. They know nothing about harmaline based dopamine antagonists and are likely not responsible for the production and discovery of these species. Does he think the cultures that mastered complex astronomical and engineering math, built Stonehenge’s and Mayan marvels just for a place to sacrifice virgins? Their eerily familiar mythology exists likely because one of their ancestors was brought by missionaries to see the “Wizard of OZ.” Academics of this sort only detract from our solving the mysteries of who was responsible for these marvels and how we can avoid disappearing like them. I for one don’t feel the solution to saving the earth from corporate ignorance and greed is by locking our children in dark caves until they are 18. The solution to reckless deforestation is not to stop all cutting down of trees, thus eliminating textbooks, and flying off to party with cannibal gods. It is better to count stamens that to bang around in a dark dangerous jungle, “hearing” the smells of plants due to alkaloid-induced synthesia. The last thing we need is the big drug ogres getting an academic blessing to turn their employees into mindless zombies using brain destroying voodoo techniques. Given a choice and an education these wise shaman would more likely be flying off into space in saucers than being spaced out in the jungle like the new age anthropologists.