A Cult Of Ignorance
from a 1980 article by I. AsimovÂ
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.â€
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It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.†It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, â€America’s right to know what, please? Science
