Eventually, phrenology was dismissed as a cult pseudoscience because it turns out your cranial contours tell us exactly nothing about what's happening inside the brain.
Unfortunately, he was met with disappointment; not because his stories were rejected, but because Campbell had embraced L. Ron Hubbard and was promoting pseudoscience.
Now, neoliberal economic theory has sold itself to you as unchangeable natural law, when in fact it's social norms and constructed narratives based on pseudoscience.