Gould does not believe Morton’s work was conscious fraud because he published it so openly. If he truly knew how flawed and bias his data was, he would not publish it due to threat of excommunication from the science community. Personal opinion; the science community at that time obviously knew very little and might have even sided with fraudulent data as long as it aligned with their supremacist goals.
The gap that Morgan is trying to fill is he want his readers/voters to be afraid of the potential of black voters and the retribution that might come. He wanted to initiate a “call to arms” to fellow racists that the status quo could be disrupted.
Claim – Morgans claim to me was this; We the white people are superior to all other races and we are under threat of being invaded and our power will be reduced. Our traditions and our way of life will be interfered with. We must stop african americans from voting for fear that we will be screwed.
Reasons – Here are skulls from all over the world. As you can see; white people have the biggest skulls of all races and are therefore smarter. Nevermind the fact that I was biased and treated the data sing and dance like my own personal marionette.
Evidence – I feel this way due to my sarcasm in the above reasons. He used junk science that was flawed. He was racist and allowed that to dominate his scientific profession.
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