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Re: Tales of Science and Fiction

#11
I am a huge fan of Isaac Asimov, and I am seriously disappointed to learn that he sexually molested women so brazenly. I couldn't believe it when I read the article, but a quick google search produced primary documentation. Not only was his butt-pinching well known among his peers, but was openly joked about as a harmless quirk:

https://the-orbit.net/almostdiamonds/2012/09/09/we-dont-do-t...

I'll still cherish his writing, but, like many of my intellectual heroes, he now gets an asterisk next to his name whenever I think about him.

Re: Tales of Science and Fiction

#12
The author seems to have been confused; instead of a review of the work, he's produced a (very low-quality) politico-moral rant—complete with the staples of such rants from the Right of gratuitous and inaccurate references to moral relativism (for not ranting like the author) and socialism (for elitist totalitarianism, which may be a double misrepresentation because it's not clear to me that there is any real basis for the accusation of elitist totalitarianism, either) about the subjects of the work with a (brief) swipe at the author (the aforementioned reference to moral relativism.)
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