phrenology

>>This is like saying, "Now that we don't have phrenology, we need a new phrenology.

What an awful ideamaybe measure the shape of their head too, save time and send them straight to jail if they have criminal phrenology

Yes, much, much less reliable; this is like comparing blood chemical tests to phrenology.

There's no ambition--to use phrenology's phrasing--in doing anything less.

Many in the neuro community consider fMRI studies to be the equivalent of phrenology.

A lot of that is also based on the prevalent paradigms and ideologies of a time -- phrenology was once accepted by "experts", as were electro-shocks for gay people.

The reality is probably much closer to 19th century phrenology than 50s cybernetics.

That doesn't validate modern feminist mythology any more than it validated phrenology.

This seems like a 21st century version of phrenology more than something that "brings mental health diagnosis into the 21st century".Just replace measuring skulls with measuring "RNA molecules".

Reminds me of Terry Pratchett's concept of retro-phrenology...You can go into a shop in Ankh-Morpork and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection.

We live with the ambiguity and use other tools to determine what people do via personality testing, statistics, psychology, etc which do not have the false certitude the pseudoscience of phrenology did the same way modern understanding of the world does not have the false certitude that religion delivers.>Gordon Gecko was a fictional villain in 1987 cinemaGecko and non-fictional villains of that age were all baby boomer monotheists, if not extremely faithful churchgoers, and often justified their negative aspects via faith.