Arrogant Americans Couldn’t Care Less about Scientific Truth
In America, we glorify ignorance.
We can’t get enough of it.
We bathe ourselves in it.
As Isaac Asimov put it: “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.”