[bluthund]

> openly-racist phrenology-based diagrams to section up the different areas of the brain.

What was racist? Was the picture inside some black face caricature? If so, was the actual scientific part inside the racist drawing accurate?

[fao_]

The actual scientific diagrams were made with the purpose of 'demonstrating that bipoc are inferior'. It was outright phrenology, done in the 1800s, and has literally no basis in modern science!

[bluthund]

Crazy. Do you know where to find the diagrams?

[fao_]

Well cited in the book I referenced (It's amusing to me how many people attempted to call me out on 'psuedoscience' and how I'm at -1 on the original post, despite the book I cited being a well-known, well-respected, and blisteringly well-cited authoritative work that covers both biochemistry and neuroscience. The dogma here and lack of scientific knowledge is incredible).

Pages 199 - 136 covers it and the root problem of "how do you divide up the brain in the first place, in an accurate and meaningful way" which turns out to not be as easy as it sounds (obviously) and is certainly not as easy as neuroscientists apparently treat it. You can find the original papers from the 1800s and 1980s in the bibilography.