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I don't have have much to add here (downvotes accepted), but I love that this post was made by someone called phren0logy.
by Sapient 17y ago
I don't have have much to add here (downvotes accepted), but I love that this post was made by someone called phren0logy.
- phren0logy 17y agoYeah, I picked that moniker when I started doing some fMRI research. It's been criticized as "the modern phrenology" so I thought I would l33t it up a bit. The history of phrenology is actually really interesting. Gall made some genuine contributions to science regarding the localization of brain function. It became what we now think of as phrenology, the wild and bizarre pseudoscience, when cranks came crawling out of the woodwork offering simple answers to hard questions and miracle cures in a bottle. Which brings us right back to the OP...