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Post by Tamrin on Aug 12, 2012 18:23:35 GMT 10
Following recent "egg head" jibes (and worse), it may be timely to touch on the phenomenon of anti-intellectualism: 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'
Isaac Asimov
This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism
Susan Jacoby Wikipedia
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