Courtney E. Thompson, PhD is Associate Professor of History at Mississippi State University. She is the author of An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America (Rutgers University Press, 2021).
Great point about pseudoscience and the history of science. It's dangerous to think of ourselves as smart, unlike the stupid people of the past, or think there's always some clear and bright line between science and pseudoscience that smart present-day people can spot.
Great point about pseudoscience and the history of science. It's dangerous to think of ourselves as smart, unlike the stupid people of the past, or think there's always some clear and bright line between science and pseudoscience that smart present-day people can spot.