In those days, many intelligent people were won over by the pseudoscience of phrenology.

当年，很多聪明人都被颅相这一伪科说服了。

Their books on phrenology sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

他们关于颅相的书售卖了几十万册。

Phrenology was used to justify slavery, colonialism, and the poor treatment of criminals and people with mental health problems.

颅相被用来为奴隶制、殖民及恶劣对待罪犯和有精神健康问题的人等行为作出辩解。

And from the middle of the nineteenth century, phrenology began to fall out of favor and eventually into total disrepute.

从十九世纪中叶开，颅相开跌下神坛，并最终声名狼藉。

Well, it's true there used to be phrenology.

好吧，的确曾经有颅相。

So, some psychologists may have emphasized Gage's recovery specifically to attack phrenology, and being able to recover did seem to argue against specialization.

此，一些心家可能特别强调了盖奇的康复，用攻击骨相，而且他的复原似乎可用来反对该论。

Eventually, phrenology was dismissed as a cult pseudoscience because it turns out your cranial contours tell us exactly nothing about what's happening inside the brain.

最终，颅相被驳回作为 崇拜伪科，为事实证明你的颅骨轮廓介绍一下究竟什么 发生的事情在大脑中。

But while Gall and Spurzheim bathed in the adulation and eventually fell out, by the way, serious scientists started to undermine the claims of phrenology.

但是当加尔和斯珀兹海姆沉浸在崇拜中时，顺便说一句，两人最终闹翻，严肃的科家们开反驳颅相的说法。

Siberian colonies became a laboratory of ideas about the " Russian race." Large collections of " exotic" skulls made available by Captain Cook's South Seas voyages were linked to early research in phrenology.

西伯利亚殖民地成为关于“俄罗斯种族”的思想实验室。库克船长的南洋航行提供的大量“异国情调”头骨与颅相的早期研究有关。