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Part Two: Phrenology: The Bastard Science of Racism

Behind the Bastards

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Scientific Racism - The Bell Curve

In 1994 psychologist Richard Hernstein and political scientist Charles Murray published The Bell Curve a book about IQ that was essentially the scientific underpinning of the movie idiocracy. Phrenology unfortunately still has some in adherence today you can find people in weird little corners of the Internet talking about it especially if you spend as much time reading stuff racist right on the Internet as I do. There are still prominent racist scientists using bad logic and worst deductions to justify their racism.

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