Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov summarizes this phenomenon as the belief that ... substanceless attacks all serve to bolster the case of anti-intellectualism. Distrust of knowledge undermines the ...

Isaac Asimov, a famous science fiction author and former biochemistry professor at Boston University, summed up cultural anti-intellectualism well when he said, “There is a cult of ignorance in the ...

On the eve of the election — Asimov sets his story in 2008 ... This venerable strain of anti-intellectualism, he observes, means most Americans assume that “their ignorance is just as good ...

Isaac Asimov was a professor of biochemistry at ... and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural ...

In the mid-20th century, Isaac Asimov wrote some of American culture’s most influential tales about artificial intelligence; in story after story, his robotic characters long to be real men.

Isaac Asimov had a PhD in chemistry. His first sci-fi story was rejected by a publisher in 1938. (Photo by Phillip Leonian from New York via Wikimedia Commons) One of the greatest science-fiction ...

The science fiction writer Isaac Asimov identified and addressed the risk in a 1942 short story, through his Three Laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction ...