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1. Quillette is terrible. Let's go over how and why. There's the stuff discussed in this article, but also more....
2. Here's an article trying to rehabilitate the merits of 18th and 19th century race science, complete with measurements of skulls. 
3. Quillette editor defends article and notes, inter alia, "Craniometry is not phrenology." This leads to internet satirist to mock this as "hebephilia is NOT the same thing as pedophilia."
4. You might think that the "hebephilia is NOT the same thing as pedophilia" line is over the top but as it turns out, hilariously and terrifyingly, the major claim of the Quillette article rests on an advocate of child rape. See this thread:
