Pseudo Science Quotes
The logic train from mixed blood to why lynching should not be prohibited is obscure but in filibusters Senators tended to just repeat all of their stump speeches or anything else because they had to keep talking.
The power structure does what they want, when they want; then they try to find reasons to justify it
He was particularly irate about politicians using junk science that would support their point of view, even though the politicians clearly had scientists in their districts who could tell the politicians that the science was poor, but they really did not care if their position was supported.
This is but one of the quotations of someone who was a major force in perpetuating the old slavery era myth that “Negros” were not only inferior to whites, but they were unable to develop morality or repress their sexual urges. Dr. Howard was generally castigated by his professional colleagues, but he was quite popular with the general public for whom he wrote a number of books and magazine articles.
The phrase “raps on midnight tables” refers to mediums who claimed that they could communicate with the dead, and some people would consult the dead about how to invest or make money. Phrenology was an absurd practice whereby some claimed that they could tell everything about a person by studying the bumps on their head. All of these were silly shortcuts without learning or substance.
