%0 Journal Article
%A Munday, Harrison Munday
%D 2025
%J Journal of Controversial Ideas

%@ 2694-5991

%V 5
%N 3
%P 23

%T Antiscientific Laws? A Brief Defence of Repatriation Laws
%M doi:10.63466/jci05030023
%U https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/5/3/310
%X Weiss’s paper argues that repatriation laws prevent further research and new scientific knowledge, particularly in anthropology. For Weiss and others, these laws are unscientific. In this commentary, I offer a brief defence of repatriation laws. I argue that these laws prevent further significant historical harms and trauma that can result from research on Native American remains and that researchers ought to embrace such laws. Furthermore, I suggest we have reason to be sceptical about Weiss’s argument.