Their books on phrenology sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

他们关于颅相学的书售卖了几十万册。

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学这学说服了。

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

颅相学被用来为奴隶制、殖民主义以及恶劣对待罪犯和有精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.

从十九世纪中叶开始，颅相学开始跌下，最终声名狼藉。

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

好吧，的确曾经有颅相学。

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，颅相学被驳回作为 崇拜学，因为事实证明你的颅骨轮廓介绍下究竟什么 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，顺便说句，两人最终闹翻，严肃的学家们开始反驳颅相学的说法。