Episode 49: Broken Clock Theorem - a podcast by Xan Peters and Joe Cimino

On today's tour, we journey underneath the museum to explore the catacombs that were found during the construction of the Uncanny County Museum and left intact. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe, take this opportunity to talk about the pseudoscience of phrenology and focus on a scientist named Samuel George Morton who measured the inside of human skulls. Before diving deep into the racist theroies and unethical display of human remains during this time, they also talk about how sometimes, old science was actually right. Like they always say, a broken clock is right twice a day...

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