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This reads as a sharp, skeptical defense of scientific thinking, but with a twist, it is less praise of scientists than distrust of confident guessing outside science. It can be read as a warning against opinions dressed up as certainty, especially in debates about health, nature, or fact.
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About Isaac Asimov
American writer and professor of biochemistry
Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He became widely known as one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers of his era, alongside Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited more than 500 books and also produced an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. He is especially associated with hard science fiction, but he also wrote mysteries, fantasy, popular science, and other non-fiction. His work ranges across nine of the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system.
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Books by Isaac Asimov
I, Robot
1999
Foundation
2018
Second Foundation
1970
Foundation and Empire
2004
Foundation's Edge
1991