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。

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

当年，很多聪明人都颅相这一伪科说服了。

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

颅相来为奴隶制、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.

从十九叶开始，颅相开始跌下坛，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。

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，颅相驳回作为 崇拜伪科，因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。

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时，顺便说一句，两人最终闹翻，严肃的科家们开始反驳颅相的说法。