Am I getting something wrong here?

Yeah he's cool...he's also in the Blues Brothers as ! Gasp! An Illinois Nazi!!!!
 
<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center>Art Weingartner wrote:


Do you take him for an imbecile Mayfield place669<center><hr width="100%"/></center></blockquote></span>

No.

Do I have to give him his skull back now?
 
Keep his skull! You kow he has plenty of them!

What exactly does he do with the skulls? Does he just enjoy extracting them or something of that nature?
 
Hahaha good call. Trophies? Or for research?

The craniologists and phrenologists influenced the Italian founder of the "Positivists" Mr Caesar Lombroso, regarding studying the 'Born Criminal' theory. He thought that visual atavistic traits could be seen in individuals, and these were traits that were responsible for criminality.

Maybe the Doktah!!! was conducting research into this long-ago discredited area!!!!!
 
I did ask and thanks for the reply! I'm just saying that whether or not he is performing research or if he just has a sick mind that he stays away from me.

So is he just looking at the brains for the 'born criminal' theory and is discarding the skulls?
 
Well, the brain wasn't really considered back then, other than it was divided up into areas. i.e. some areas contained memory, some contained emotion etc...We have to consider the context of this half-c0cked theory. At the time it was THE new thing. Everything's in context. I feel sure that in years to come, DNA and fingerprinting will be looked at skeptically. But at the moment, it's considered 99% exact.
Of course, the obvious danger with Lombrosian theory of Criminality, was to just look at someone's shape of the skull or "eyes being close together" (ever heard anyone say that...) is that you're labelling someone a criminal without an actual offence or trial. And as we know, for law to be broken we have to have 2 things: the actus reus (the criminal act) and mens rea (the guilty mind). Lombroso once pointed a guy walking down the street and said "HE is a criminal...not legally, but anthrapologically". Very dangerous stuff.
BUT what was good about Lombroso was he was the first to look at the innate aspect of criminality. Which we use today; neurology, chemistry, A.D.D. etc...
 
Ahhhh..... I see now, the theory was that if your bones say it, you're a criminal.

Nowadays I hear of courtcases where people are using brain scans as evidence.
 
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