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...ientific figures of his day conspicuously avoided, including spiritualism, phrenology, mesmerism, environmentalism, and life on Mars."</font>

Forbes was also interested in [[phrenology]] and [[homeopathy]]; Forbes admired much about the founder of homeopathy,

...difficulty in defining rigorously what [[science]] is. Some ideas (like [[phrenology]]) were once considered respectable sciences, but were later dismissed as p ...the French physiologist [[François Magendie]] (1783–1855), who referred to phrenology as "a pseudo-science of the present day". Among its early uses was one in 1

...se there are many things that are pseudoscience but not supernatural, like phrenology and eugenics, while not all supernatural are labeled as pseudoscience. [[Us ...decide what is pseudescience and what is not. Some people would argue that phrenology and eugenics are dated; others that the two disciplines might be wrong; but

...certainly want to mention some of the more famous cases (e.g., El Dorado, phrenology, treatment of human remains & NAGPRA, use of ethnographic data in times of

Since the age of phrenology neuroscientists have tried to relate skills and attributes to changes in sk

...objective reasons for calling even astrology pseudoscience, while calling phrenology pseudoscience seems an ahistorical fallacy. Astrology, alchemy, phrenology, ESP, telekenesis, UFO studies, Creation Science, homeopathy, naturopathy,

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...of biology, although it concerns the origin of living things. For example, phrenology is not neuroscience, and is not health science. It may have been both those ...t the idea is in the same category as phrenology. I would disagree because phrenology has generally been proven to be quackery. While the idea of intelligent des

*'''[[Phrenology]]''' claims to be able to determine personality traits and criminality on t

...'<ref>[http://skepdic.com/phren.html The Skeptic's Dictionary: Overview of Phrenology]</ref>

...dge), appears to have been used first in 1843 by Magendie, who referred to phrenology as "a pseudo-science of the present day" [1] In 1844 it was used in the Nor

...and saying nothing more about it, just as we should have articles about [[Phrenology]] and [[Bertillon]] and such like. I certainly wouldn't use them as a hook