Going against the tide
A few days ago I was reading an article by Charles Dickens, in which he mentions phrenology. This was the study of bumps on people’s heads to explain or predict a person’s behaviour or traits. As far as I am aware, nobody now regards this sort of thing as a serious proposition, and phrenology is regarded as a pseudoscience.
I often wonder if the current …
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