{"id":1017,"date":"2023-07-10T18:24:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T18:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/phrenology-the-weirdest-pseudoscience-of-them-all-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T18:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T18:24:44","slug":"phrenology-the-weirdest-pseudoscience-of-them-all-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/phrenology-the-weirdest-pseudoscience-of-them-all-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrenology: The weirdest pseudoscience of them all? &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ojxqUcfTpm0?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>During the 19th Century, a strange new pseudoscientific technique became hugely popular.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the theory that the brain was comprised of &#8216;organs&#8217; that operated different parts of the mind, phrenologists claimed they could &#8216;read&#8217; an individual&#8217;s personality and intelligence by merely feeling these organs via the normal lumps and bumps on the head.<\/p>\n<p>Scripted and narration: Claudia Hammond<br \/>\nVideo: Dominika Ozynska &#038; Adrian Hartrick<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ojxqUcfTpm0\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 19th Century, a strange new pseudoscientific technique became hugely popular. Based on the theory that the brain was comprised of &#8216;organs&#8217; that operated different parts of the mind, phrenologists claimed they could &#8216;read&#8217; an individual&#8217;s personality and intelligence by merely feeling these organs via the normal lumps and bumps on the head. Scripted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}