An oddly sympathetic 1997 history of phrenology. While phrenology was not designedly or inherently racist, I'm not sure how you can describe its history without more focus on how its malleability made it a plaything of racists.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/facing-a-bumpy-history-144497373/ …
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Unfalsifiable junk science is the easiest science to repurpose for extreme forms of politics & bigotry.
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