EPISODE · Sep 11, 2011
Chapter 80: The Nut
from Call Me Ishmael · host Patrick Shea
In “The Nut,” Ishmael lampoons the pseudo-science of phrenology as working in metaphor rather than in experiment or observation. By starting with what he wants to prove and working to make his evidence fit, he exposes deficiencies in both the phrenological view and the phrenological method. Says Ishmael, the whale’s skull composes the barest fraction […]
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