The authors explore scores of long-lived errors that mankind solemnly accepts as gospel, no matter how often and irrefutably each piece of nonsense is exposed
Books, such as The Natural Superiority of Women (1953), of Ashley Montagu, originally Israel Ehrenberg, a British-American, helped to popularize anthropology.
As a young man, he changed his name to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu". After relocating to the United States, he used the name "Ashley Montagu."
This humanist of Jewish ancestry related topics, such as race and gender, to politics and development. He served as the rapporteur or appointed investigator in 1950 for the The Race Question, statement of educational, scientific, and cultural organization of United Nations.