Unfalsifiable junk science is the easiest science to repurpose for extreme forms of politics & bigotry.
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I really can’t imagine the person who wakes up one morning and thinks, “do you know who needs defending? Phrenologists!”
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I actually found a "phrenologist" in the 1860 census. It was a 31-year old woman in Cincinnati. I think she was basically a Tarot Card reader or fortune teller and the census taker described her as a phrenologist.pic.twitter.com/6f7onX3kRH
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Cool. Where phrenology really started taking a dark turn was with the rise of eugenics after the mid-1860s.
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