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>> No.11076977

No because it is scientifically illogical

>> No.11076984

>>11076973
Certain aspects of head shape are extremely influenced by environment, without an apparent affect on intelligence. Phrenology may have accidentally hit upon some genetic connections, but it did not make use of any scientific method and as such was never a science.

>> No.11076986
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>>11076973
it doesn't make any fucking sense you moron
so like most things that you probably think were discarded for "political" correctness
(scare quotes because usually you just mean objective correctness (^: )

>> No.11077019

If phrenology proved women or blacks were inferior we'd be all over it like a rash and blaming the Jews for getting it discredited

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11077027

The shape of the skull doesn't matter but its volume does though.

>> No.11077036

>>11076973
It got tossed out long before people gave a shit about political correctness.

>> No.11077128

>>11076973
because it's absolute horseshit like astrology

>> No.11077317

>>11077019
Didn't this actually happen though?