
Part One: Phrenology: The Bastard Science of Racism
Behind the Bastards
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What Is Better Than Phrenology?
Phrenology was not initially accepted by European, you know scientists. The scientific establishment had grave doubts about whether or not it was nonsense. For these 19th century materialists the global was also a guarantee of truth comb made this explicit when he challenged Thomas stone one of the former critics of phrenology in Edinburgh to explain how a false science could have so quickly spread over Europe and taken root in Asia and America.
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