伪科学的美国

In the thick of the 1979 New York City winter, Isaac Asimov sat at his typewriter to reflect on what he considered America’s “cult of ignorance.” In the “My Turn” section of Newsweek, where Asimov eventually published the essay, he was credited as a biochemistry professor at Boston University School of Medicine, though the title was honorary by that point; he’d been a full-time writer for years, and with more than 200 books to his name, I imagine the words flowed from his mind like an open faucet. When the essay appeared on January 21, 1980, the world learned what one of its sharpest minds thought about America’s “growing strain of anti-intellectualism.” …