The plan would not stagger all scientific innovation---just ones that had used tribal information without authorization.
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If the goal of protecting traditional medical knowledge is to allow Indigenous¶ communities to engage with the greater scientific community to leverage that¶ knowledge to benefit their communities, then discussing how academic scientists¶ and pharmaceutical companies use traditional medical knowledge is beneficial.¶ Such a discussion could also dispel arguments that protecting traditional medical¶ knowledge would unreasonably impede scientific research. Traditional medical¶ knowledge is often used as inspiration for new research projects or clues to solve¶ research questions.
95 Protecting traditional medical knowledge would not foreclose¶ any use of the knowledge in scientific research, just unauthorized uses.¶ 96 Scientists¶ would only need to obtain licenses or other permission to use the knowledge, just¶ like any other protected intellectual property they may wish to use.97