Brand for the Burning!
OR: HOW I BECAME A 'SCIENTIFIC RACIST', A 'SEX REALIST' AND 'THE PAEDOPHILE'S FRIEND'
-- AND WAS THUS WITCH-HUNTED BY THE 'LIBERAL'-LEFT, CENSORED BY VIRTUALLY EVERYBODY, SUSPENDED FROM TEACHING BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY AND EVENTUALLY SACKED
BY CHRIS ('MINE'S A PEACH BRANDY') BRAND,
M.A. (OXON.)
[A.K.A. 'Congo Chris']
INDEX and OUTLINE PAGE
for The Bumper Book of Brandiana,
1st edition, 1997
These autobiographical reflections are published in the Internet bi-monthly magazine, PINC [which champions POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS], at http://cycad.com/cgi-bin/pinc beginning in July, 1997.
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BRAND'S 'INTELLECTUAL MEMOIRS' BEGIN AS DUN-HAIRED-BUT-PLENTY-OF-IT, GREEN-EYED, LOWER-MIDDLE-CLASS, NORTH-LONDON GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CHOIRBOY BRAND (5'10", b. 1943, m. 1962 and 1977) PACKS IN HISTORY AND INSTEAD BEGINS STUDYING PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY
1. It started with a dream -- My war
2. Oxford Psychology, 1962-65 -- Behaviourism versus nativism
SO FAR: CHRIS BRAND'S DREAM OF BECOMING A SNIPER WITH SOME SPECIAL MISSION BEHIND ENEMY LINES REMAINED QUITE UNREALIZED WHILE HE WAS AN UNDERGRAD AT OXFORD (1962-65). EXPOSED TO BEHAVIOURIST AND NATIVIST VIEWS, HE ACTUALLY PREFERRED HANS EYSENCK AS A BALANCED PSYCHOLOGIST WHO HAD A FOOT IN BOTH CAMPS....
3. I become a hereditarian, 1965-68 -- The criminal mind
4. I return to the
dreaming spires, 1968-69 -- On Aggression
SO FAR: CHRIS BRAND TOOK HIS FIRST
STEPS TOWARDS HEREDITARIANISM AFTER GRADUATING FROM OXFORD. AT HER MAJESTY'S
PRISON GRENDON, AS A PSYCHOLOGIST, BRAND GATHERED FROM INTERVIEWS WITH INMATES
THAT MANY OF THE SIBLINGS OF
GRENDON'S 'PSYCHOPATHIC', RECIDIVIST (ETC.) PRISONERS HAD ACTUALLY BECOME
FAIRLY NORMAL ADULTS. THIS HAPPENED DESPITE PRISONERS' SIBLINGS HAVING BEEN
BROUGHT UP BY THE SAME SUPPOSEDLY CRUEL OR INADEQUATE PARENTS AS WERE BLAMED
FOR POOR PARENTING SKILLS BY THE PRISONERS THEMSELVES. BUT NO-ONE WAS
INTERESTED. ON BRAND'S RETURN TO THE IVORY TOWERS AS A JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW,
OXFORD HAD NO PLAN FOR HIM EXCEPT TO THROW ITS WOMEN AT HIS FEET.
5. I see my first bull-fight, 1969-70 -- Arthur Jensen is psychology
6. The Burt disaster,
1970-80 -- Kamin, Gillie and Dorfman
SO FAR: AFTER OXFORD, THE PRISON SERVICE AND MORE OXFORD,
BRAND WAS GIVEN A LECTURESHIP AT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY IN 1970. THERE HE FOUND A
CLIMATE THAT WAS NEGATIVE (USUALLY POLITELY) ABOUT HEREDITARIAN IDEAS. AS THE
BURT AFFAIR DEVELOPED FOLLOWING KAMIN'S ATTACK (1973/4), BRAND WATCHED AGHAST
AND FOUND HE COULD DO LITTLE. THOUGH CUT OFF, HOWEVER, HE DID HIS READING AND
SET HIS CONCLUSIONS OUT IN SAMIZDAT. THUS WERE EDINBURGH STUDENTS ENCOURAGED TO
RESEARCH 'INSPECTION TIME' (IT) AND ITS RELATION TO IQ.
7. I meet the mighty,
1976-79
-- NATO Conference on Intelligence and
Learning
8. Fame at last! 1980-82
-- discussed in Nature (News &
Views)
SO FAR: THOUGH ALMOST DESPAIRING AS THE BURT AFFAIR SAW IQ'S FORTUNES GO FROM BAD TO WORSE, CHRIS BRAND PERSUADED HIS STUDENTS TO FOLLOW UP RESEARCH IN ADELAIDE THAT SEEMED TO HIM TO SHOW INTELLIGENCE AS CLOSELY LINKED TO MENTAL INTAKE SPEED - 'INSPECTION TIME' (IT). SOON THE WORK OF MIKE ANDERSON, IAN DEARY AND OTHER STUDENTS GOT BRAND TO THE TOP TABLE -- MEETING HANS EYSENCK AND ART JENSEN AND HAVING THE EDINBURGH IQ/IT RESEARCH PUBLICIZED IN THE TOP JOURNAL NATURE.
9. Snuffing my way to
San Diego, 1983
-- 'Expert Adviser' to US Navy
10. Where do I belong?
1984
-- 'The Galton' or the British
Psychological Society?
SO FAR: THOUGH SPURNED BY MAINSTREAM PSYCHOLOGISTS, CHRIS
BRAND'S DEVELOPMENTS OF IQ/IT RESEARCH APPEALED TO THE US NAVY AND TO THE
BRITISH ROYAL AIR FORCE. SEEING HIS UNACCEPTABILITY TO THE LIKES OF THE BRITISH
PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND THE MASSING PEECEE HORDES, BRAND OPTED FOR MEMBERSHIP
OF THE GALTON INSTITUTE FROM 1985. (HE WOULD PROVE 'BAD BOY BRAND' IN THAT CLUB TOO;
BUT AT LEAST 'THE GALTON' LET BRAND INVITE HIS PALS TO LONDON FOR A CONFERENCE,
AND THEY DIDN'T MOUNT A TRIBUNAL....)
11. Dimensions of
personality, 1983-94
-- the 'Big Five-or-Six'
12. The needs of
youth, 1983-90
-- The Structural Psychometrics Group
SO FAR: ALTHOUGH INCREASINGLY INVOLVED IN THE IQ BUSINESS, CHRIS BRAND ALSO SERVED IN THE LONDON SCHOOL'S OTHER BIG CAMPAIGN TO ESTABLISH WHAT WERE THE MAIN DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN PERSONALITY VARIATION. UNSURPRISINGLY, HE CAME UP WITH A DIFFERENT ANSWER FROM ALL OF HIS COLLEAGUES: NOT 1, 2, 4½, 5, 42 OR 57, BUT JUST 6. NATURALLY, BRAND'S POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS WERE WARY, AND ESPECIALLY WHEN HE BECAME INVOLVED WITH THE ULTIMATE HERESY FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS: SUPPORTING NATO.
13. Sniper Brand,
1980-95
-- vs Billig, Bruner, Lewontin,
Schiff, R. Sternberg, et al.
14. The Quotes,
1984-96
-- 'Personality, Biology & Society'
SO FAR: AS UNOFFICIAL SNIPER FOR THE LONDON SCHOOL, CHRIS BRAND HAD SUBJECTED SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, EGALITARIANS, FEMINISTS AND CONSTRUCTIVISTS TO DAMAGING FIRE -- THOUGH FEW WERE WATCHING THE SHOW BECAUSE PSYCHOLOGISTS SELDOM READ NATURE AND TIMES HIGHER. TRYING TO BE 'POSITIVE' AS WELL, BRAND STARTED ISSUING HIS ANTHOLOGIES OF QUOTATIONS ON ANY AND EVERY TOPIC IN DIFFERENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY -- BUT THEY WERE ONLY INTELLIGIBLE TO THE BRIGHTER STUDENTS AND TO PEOPLE WHO KNEW QUITE A BIT ABOUT INTELLIGENCE AND PERSONALITY ALREADY.
15. Race is back,
1982-95
-- Richard Lynn and Phil Rushton turn the
screw
16. The Irish poet,
1988-9
-- Battling with Piaget
SO FAR: RACE RETURNED TO THE AGENDA OF DIFFERENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE 1980'S AND CHRIS BRAND WAS ABLE TO HELP RICHARD LYNN'S WORK ON ASIAN IQ INTO NATURE, TO HELP PUFF PHILIP VERNON'S REVIEW OF ORIENTAL INTELLIGENCE, AND TO HELP SAVE PHIL RUSHTON'S JOB IN WESTERN ONTARIO. HOWEVER, BRAND'S BATTLE AT HOME WAS WITH PIAGETIANS WHO HAD BY THEN WON THE BATTLE OF SOUND-BITES AND GOT IT ACCEPTED BY THE CHATTERING CLASSES THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENCE WAS A 'COMPLEX INTERACTION EFFECT' FROM WHICH GENETIC FACTORS COULD AND SHOULD NEVER BE ISOLATED. NOT FOR THE FIRST OR LAST TIME, BRAND'S IRISH CONNECTIONS CAME INTO THEIR OWN.
17. The return of
eugenics, 1990
-- The Pioneers
18. Sex is back,
1990-1995
-- Giving Freud my little finger
SO FAR: INVITED TO NEW YORK TO JOIN AN ORGANIZED HEREDITARIAN ACT, CHRIS BRAND COULDN'T GET HIS BOOTS ON. DISTRACTED BY SOME IRISH WAIF, BRAND DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE THE BELL CURVE IN THE MAKING AND ARGUED WITH PHIL RUSHTON THAT NATO WOULD ALWAYS BE SUPERIOR TO NATIONALISM. ON HIS RETURN TO BLIGHTY, ONCE HIS IRISH LESBIAN DESERTED HIM, BRAND STARTED BRINGING EROS INTO EVERYTHING AND SAYING HE HAD FREUD AND DARWIN TO BACK HIM UP; BUT OTHER PEOPLE THOUGHT HE WAS ONLY INTO FREUDIANISM TO ANNOY EVERYONE ELSE AND INDULGE HIS THANATOS.
19. The nigger in the
woodpile, 1992
-- How I (first) upset the whole school
20. Realism is back,
1992-1995
-- 'g' as the answer to
behaviourism, constructivism and
the comprehensive
'schools'
SO FAR: AT LAST CAME CHRIS BRAND'S OPPORTUNITY TO CONFRONT THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OPPONENT OF THE LONDON SCHOOL: IN BERLIN, 1992, BRAND STEPPED INTO THE RING WITH HARVARD'S HOWARD GARDNER. TO BRAND'S ASTONISHMENT, HOWEVER, THE GERMAN REFEREE STOPPED THE FIGHT AFTER BRAND BIT A CHUNK OUT OF GARDNER'S EAR. GOING NEXT TO OXFORD, BRAND WAS SHOCKED TO FIND THAT A PHILOSOPHY PAL HAD REMAINED A LIFELONG WITTGENSTEINIAN AND HAD NO INTEREST IN IQ AT ALL. INCENSED, BRAND SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT 'g' ONLY TO FIND THAT HIS THINKING WAS BORING AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE EVEN TO THE PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO PUBLISH HIM.
21. Basic Instincts
are back, 1993-1995
-- 'eros', more sex, and 'maternos'
22. 'Repellent and
obnoxious', 1996-7
-- de-published, censored, suspended and
witch-hunted
23.Gunfight at the OK
Corral, 1996-…..
-- the unconcluded battle with PC for my
academic life
INCLUDES CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF KEY
EVENTS IN EDINBURGH
UNIVERSITY versus CHRIS
BRAND TILL JUNE, 1997.
SACKING OCCURRED
IN AUGUST, 1997; COMPENSATION IN OCTOBER, 1999.
24. EPILOGUE [written March, 2002] –
Pariahs can win!
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FINIS
For the latest about Brand and his travails with Wiley Depublisher, Edinburgh LUniversity, Feminazism and Political Correctness in general, see his website or periodically updated Brief CV.
Chapters 1-23 were all written by June, 1997.
Last modified: 13 iii 02