"It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense." -- James
Randi
Volume 7 Issue 2
February 1999
A REALL Special 6th Anniversary Issue
Dr. Kreider Speaks Out
Part 2: On Phrenology
by Randy Alley
Kreider
defined phrenology as a pseudoscience that "professes to be a system of philosophy of
the human mind, founded on the physiology of the brain."1 As described in
"Phrenology Considered" (Vol. 6, No. 9), phrenologists believed that many
different organs made up the human brain. During Kreider's lifetime, no one knew the
number of such organs because each phrenologist professed knowledge of new and different
organs. Kreider refuted phrenology by examining the scientific validity of its premise. He
also provided humorous contradictions which arose from the phrenologist's claims.More
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Kreider
defined phrenology as a pseudoscience that "professes to be a system of philosophy of
the human mind, founded on the physiology of the brain."1 As described in
"Phrenology Considered" (Vol. 6, No. 9), phrenologists believed that many
different organs made up the human brain. During Kreider's lifetime, no one knew the
number of such organs because each phrenologist professed knowledge of new and different
organs. Kreider refuted phrenology by examining the scientific validity of its premise. He
also provided humorous contradictions which arose from the phrenologist's claims.
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