Comments on: Skullduggery!

By: arensb

arensb — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:10:44 +0000

pounded into your thick skull

I believe this falls in the realm of retrophrenology.

By: Evil Carbon

Evil Carbon — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:38:42 +0000

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By: robinaltman

robinaltman — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:15:15 +0000

Wow. I never heard of phrenology before, and I’m a child psychiatrist. I’m so ashamed. I’m going to add this amazing science to my before limited repertoire of diagnostic tools. I will treasure it aside the “Lego at your head test”, the “call the teacher a fucking asshole test”, and, of course, the “trash the office and refuse to clean up” test.

By: AllanW

AllanW — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:42:54 +0000

I concur with my esteemed colleague Kevin Keilty who posted above. Utilising the purely diagnostic abilities of classical Phrenological techniques, the modern Retrophrenologist practitioner is able to affect dramatic changes to the personality and current health status of the patients via the use of specially adapted instruments.

All credit for this remarkable advance in medical practice should be laid at the door of T. Pratchett who first alerted me to this boon to modern medicine. For a more thorough understanding of Modern Retrophrenology please consult the ‘Night Watch’ series of books.

By: Tia Harlowe

Tia Harlowe — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:55:58 +0000

I have a friend who practices phrenology. I have friends who practice all kinds of crap-based stuff. (What’s really needed is to come up with some crap-based medicine I haven’t heard about and don’t know someone who practices it. Back in the 60s, when sex and drugs didn’t equal DEATH, we believed a lot of goofy things.)
She felt up my brother’s head (run with it) and noted that he had four “corners” which manifested themselves in cowlicks. She said that this indicated that he was highly spiritual. (Actually he was high, so she was half right.)

By: GimpyEstrada

GimpyEstrada — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:12:48 +0000

I am relieved that it is only the “intelligent” public that thinks this is crap.

That means that the “ridiculously stupid” public can buy into this wonderful diagnostic tool.

By: kevin keilty

kevin keilty — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:52:53 +0000

Any open and honest discussion of phrenology cannot be worthy of merit without discussing the inevitable consequence of Retrophrenology. Proven to be as effective as homeopathy and more reliable than dousing retrophrenology allows people to work on the aspects of their personality that they don’t like without hard work and sacrifice. all that is needed is a surgical chisels and medicated mallet.
kev

By: MarshallDog

MarshallDog — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:44:25 +0000

I love when pseudoscientists use their crap when discrediting their critics… such as saying “Napoleon had in fact the sloped front of the practical realist!” to criticize him. Reminds me of this great exchange…

Burns: She has the sloping brow and cranial bumpage of the career criminal.
Smithers: Uh, Sir? Phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago.
Burns: Of course you’d say that…you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter!

My favorite section of this phrenology page is the “examinations” they do of certain historical figures. For instance, an examination of Julius Caesar… or rather, a scuplture of his head. Kinda like UFOlogists taking a spacecrafts spectrum from a photograph. I thought phrenologist actually had to touch a person’s head to feel all the little bumps, but apparently one picture of one sculpture of a man whose been dead for centuries is good enough.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:29:03 +0000

Filled out the questionnaire… any bets on actually getting a real response?

By: Skidoo

Skidoo — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:11:53 +0000

Fill out the questionnaire. Show the phrenologist how much you want to touch his melon.

http://www.phrenology.org/qphr.php