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| - Anti-intellectualism describes popular and often authoritarian contempt for the life of the mind. For example, fascists typically voice anti-intellectualism in their political appeals.
- The exact principles of anti-intellectualism fluctuate depending on their implementers, but their essence is generally agreed to be strong opposition to the ‘academic elite’, which, in the words of one anti-intellectualist, entails "anyone who can add two and two, find Iraq on a map, read anything other than Ann Rice, and hear the word 'scientific progress' without bursting into fits and screaming in a clearly limited vocabulary about global moral decay."
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| - The exact principles of anti-intellectualism fluctuate depending on their implementers, but their essence is generally agreed to be strong opposition to the ‘academic elite’, which, in the words of one anti-intellectualist, entails "anyone who can add two and two, find Iraq on a map, read anything other than Ann Rice, and hear the word 'scientific progress' without bursting into fits and screaming in a clearly limited vocabulary about global moral decay." One of the motivations most often cited for anti-intellectualism is the belief that excessive knowledge causes depression. In 2002, Michael Behe, giving a lecture at the Creation Museum, stated that he had recently discovered irrefutable evidence that intellectualism also caused skin diseases, sexual dysfunction, STDs, leukaemia, smallpox, anal cancer, and common head colds. When a member of the audience asked if he was planning to present his research to prove these claims, Behe paused a moment, then pointed at the questioner and shouted ‘intellectual!’ The listening crowd promptly turned into a mob, and the questioner was thrown out of the museum to jeers about ‘how the wife felt about the floppy problem.’
- Anti-intellectualism describes popular and often authoritarian contempt for the life of the mind. For example, fascists typically voice anti-intellectualism in their political appeals.
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