The REALL News - February 1999

<body> <div id="main-title"><img src="/images/main-title.gif" width="329" height="81" alt=""></div> <div id="global-navbar"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about/">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="/newsletter/">Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="/letters/">Letters</a></li> <li><a href="/calendar.html">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/links.html">Links</a></li> <li><a href="/search.html">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/email.html">E-Mail</a></li> </ul> </div>  <p align="center"><font size="2"><i>(<a href="index.html">Toggle Frames</a>)</i></font></p> <h1 align="center"><img src="/images/anthony/std_news.gif" alt="*" align="middle" WIDTH="64" HEIGHT="54">The REALL News<img src="/images/anthony/std_news.gif" alt="*" align="middle" WIDTH="64" HEIGHT="54"></h1> <p align="center"><i>"It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense." -- James Randi</i></p> <hr> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%" height="19"><b>Volume 7 Issue 2</b></td> <td align="right" width="50%" height="19"><b>February 1999</b></td> </tr> </table> <hr> <h1 align="center">A REALL Special 6th Anniversary Issue</h1> <h2 align="center">In This Issue</h2> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <th align="left">Features</th> <th align="left">Departments</th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="kreider-speaks-part-2.html">Dr. Kreider Speaks Out - Part 2: On Phrenology</a>, by Randy Alley</li> <li><a href="bennett-braun.html">Update: Bennett Braun Case</a>, by David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="reallity-check.html">REALLity Checklist -- 1998 in Review</a>, by David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="letters.html">Letters to the Chairman and Editor</a></li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="chairman.html">From the Chairman</a> - David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="editor.html">From the Editor</a> - Bob Ladendorf</li> <li><a href="masthead.html">Masthead</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p> </p> <div align="center"><center> <table border="1" width="80%"> <tr> <td width="100%"><h2 align="center">Dr. Kreider Speaks Out<br> Part 2: On Phrenology</h2> <p align="center"><b>by Randy Alley</b></p> <p><img src="brain-in-head.gif" alt="Your Brain on Phrenology" align="right" border="0" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="205">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."<sup>1</sup> 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.<a href="kreider-speaks-part-2.html"><img alt="More" border="0" hspace="2" src="/images/anthony/hpoint_right.gif" WIDTH="33" HEIGHT="14">More</a></td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p>   </body>