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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Aug 2018
      Replying to @MorlockP @random_eddie

      25 years ago I was upset (and am STILL upset) that people conflate "seemingly retarded on the face of it" with "debunked". Relativity is seemingly retarded...but it is correct! Evolution is seemingly retarded. LOTS - maybe MOST - correct things are seemingly retarded.

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Aug 2018
      Replying to @MorlockP @random_eddie

      "debunked" is not the same as "not proven", which in turn is not the same as "seems stupid"

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    3. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 29 Aug 2018
      Replying to @MorlockP

      I'm not an expert in the history of phrenology, so I have to rely on third parties. Here's a page that I found in a cursory search. The first section (before "Cold Reading") lists specific claims made by phrenologists and states which ones were later found correct or disproven.

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    4. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 29 Aug 2018
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      https://theness.com/index.php/phrenology-history-of-a-pseudoscience/ …

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    5. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 29 Aug 2018
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      I take this to suggest that phrenology has been debunked, rather than merely not proven or merely seeming stupid.

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    6. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 29 Aug 2018
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      I'm now somewhat curious what the 5% of phrenology is that you think might not be bunk, and which aspects of phrenology have since been proven by studies.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Aug 2018
      Replying to @random_eddie

      * skull size correlates with IQ * thicker facial features, specifically supra-orbital ridges, correlate with high T, agressiveness, criminality * other, unspecified, that viewers can detect and use to guess things like criminality, education, sexual orientation

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    8. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 29 Aug 2018
      Replying to @MorlockP

      With my limited understanding of what "phrenology" constitutes, I would not have associated those propositions with phrenology, nor would I have assumed that the well-established debunking of phrenology necessarily also invalidates those propositions.

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Aug 2018
      Replying to @random_eddie

      I've already expressed, pretty darned clearly, I think: * the axioms that I will defend * my extreme lack of interest in debating terminology the vast majority of your most recent tweets on this seem to fall into category 2 I'm bowing out

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 29 Aug 2018
      Replying to @MorlockP

      "I'm extremely uninterested in whether nylon is alchemy." Noted.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Aug 2018
      Replying to @random_eddie

      not fair You tell me if you want to define the term "alchemy" so as to include nylon or not, and I'll use the term that way. Definitions are stamp collecting, and are uninteresting. I've said this a few times, and now you're being a dick.

      11:08 AM - 29 Aug 2018
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