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Podcast: Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
Episode: Phrenology
Description: In the 19th century, a new discipline swept over the medical and legal professions. This belief held that a person’s personality could be determined by analyzing the contours or bumps on their head. The belief had a surprising amount of sway among certain people, and it developed a large following before eventually being thoroughly discredited.Learn more about the pseudoscience of phrenology, how it was developed, and why it caught on on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.SponsorsBetterHelpVisit BetterHelp.com/every...