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Revealing the depths of your ignorance about the history of science to own the Marxists.
Here’s a starter course. Just about everyone put some stock in phrenology from the 1840s through the 1870s, from Emerson to Audubon to Horace Mann to Edgar Allan Poe. smithsonianmag.com/history/facing…
Claire has discovered that, GASP!, Marx was a man of his era!!!
The next thing you know, we’ll find out Isaac Newton was an alchemist and so we’ll have to discount everything he said about physics. newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/texts/newtons-…
The context here is that Claire edits a conservative magazine invested in the bogus field of “race science.” People joke about her being a modern day phrenologist. So I think she’s trying to turn that charge against the left by saying “aha, Marx was a phrenologist, not me.” 
