ABSTRACT

This chapter summarizes the major conclusions of the previous chapters. Broad similarities and themes found among the various case studies are drawn. Throughout the examples of pseudoanthropology, we see the same cognitive biases and logical fallacies at play leading people to pseudoscientific conclusions. The primary shared trait of all the case studies presented is a dependence of ideologically driven preferences as opposed to logic and data in drawing conclusions about human cultures, languages, and biology, past and present.