Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2018-12-06
Books mentioned on Part Two: Phrenology: The Bastard Science of Racism
When we last left the science of Phrenology, it had spread like wildfire throughout the United States and, later, Europe. Robert is joined again by podcast pioneer Josh Clark (Stuff You Should Know, The End of the World) to continue discussing scientific racism.
Robert Evans criticized The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve by Richard J.
Critiqued“In 1994, psychologist Richard Hearnstein and political scientist Charles Murray published The Bell Curve, a book about IQ that was essentially the scientific underpinninging of the movie Idiocracy.”
Where to get it
