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From the archives in 1989, Wendy Grossman tracks down Francis Galton's 1872 study on the supposed power of prayer in Northern Ireland

Francis Galton pioneered scientific advances in many fields " but also founded the racist pseudoscience of eugenics   Updated 1/19/2021 6:01 PM (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Richard Gunderman, Indiana University   (THE CONVERSATION) A popular pseudoscience was leaving its mark on American culture a century ago in everything from massive reductions in quotas for immigration to the U.S....