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3.  HISTORY OF C.B. versus P.C., by Chris Brand  (this page, see below)
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– DIARY from 2000 till present

 

BRIEF BRAND BIO:
I am a differential psychologist of the hereditarian 'London School' (following the ideas of Sir Francis Galton). My book The g Factor: General Intelligence and Its Implications (1996) set out my work on how mental speed is the basis of IQ differences; and it explained my proposals for schoolchildren and their parents to have 'track choice.' The book provoked a media firestorm and outrage among 'liberal'/leftists after I agreed I am what 'anti-racists' [typically ignoracists] call a 'scientific racist' – believing that Blacks tend to have low IQs (and that Jews and Orientals have high IQs). The book was withdrawn by its 'publisher', Wiley; and when Oxford University Press planned to republish it I was suspended and sacked from my lectureship at Edinburgh University. Subsequently I worked as a waiter and ran the William McDougall NewsLetter on the Internet backing liberalism and race realism ('neolibeREALISM') and criticizing egalitarianism, anti-racism, multiculturalism, feminazism, paedohysteria and NATO's attack on Serbia. Today I am a research consultant for the Woodhill Foundation (USA) which helps arrange birth control for cocaine-addicted mothers.
    I was born in Preston, England in 1943, am a graduate of Oxford University (The Queen's College), and have worked a prison psychologist, as an Oxford junior don (Nuffield College) and as a scientific expert with the US Navy (San Diego). I am probably best known as a book reviewer for Nature,  Times Higher,  Behaviour Research & Therapy and Personality and Individual Differences; and as a Consulting Editor for European Journal of Personality (1987-2000). Recently I have written for American Renaissance and Occidental Quarterly. Since 1970 I have lived in central Edinburgh. I am married and have three children by previous marriages. For my Curriculum Vitae, battles with PeeCee, extraction of UKP12,000 from Edinburgh University and latest news (Diary 2000-present), see http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk/index.htm.

 

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3.  Chris Brand versus P.C. -- HISTORY

SUMMARY:

Personality psychologist Chris Brand was fired by Edinburgh University in 1997 for one page of truth-telling in e-mail. He wrote the controversial 1996 book on IQ, The g Factor: General Intelligence and Its Implications, which was sold in UK bookshops for six weeks but was withdrawn by 'publisher' Wiley (New York and Chichester) for political incorrectness. Determined to be rid of him for his 'racism' and 'sexism', Edinburgh University pounced* on Brand's defence of a Nobel prizewinner who had himself fallen foul of modern mindlessness -- about non-violent paedophilic episodes with adolescents, for which the 73-year-old Nobelist faced a possible 30-year jail term. Psychologists like Chris Brand, Raymond Cattell, Linda Gottfredson, Phil Rushton and Glayde Whitney are the victims of a 'Fourth Inquisition' by defenders of egalitarianism who are now desperate about the overwhelming modern evidence of the importance of genes. Egalitarians insist that all human unhappiness and weaknesses can be blamed on a person's environment -- and thus corrected by political endeavour; so they have to play down genetic factors and support the convention that sexual advances to a minor are not only 'outrageous' but invariably harmful.**
      Brand scorns the shameful violations of academic freedom by Wiley and Edinburgh University. He maintains: that it is wrong to blame human ills on social disadvantage; that many children surmount such fashionably invoked hazards as 'labeling', 'low parental SES', 'child abuse', 'parental deprivation' and 'racial discrimination'; that the environment is a challenge, not a handicap -- except when made into an excuse by experts; and that psychologists should respect human individuality and the need of young people for choice in their development.
      In November, 1999, Edinburgh University infuriated 'anti-racists' by paying Brand £UK12,000 -- the maximum award obtainable for unfair dismissal from UK Employment Tribunals. But Brand does not intend to rest content with this moral victory and continues to publish his weekly McDougall NewsLetter opposing Political Correctness and hoping to rescue British academia from the intimidation to which it is subjected.       

       *  Just as the USA's Constitution allows a President to be off-loaded for "high crimes"
       or even "misdemeanours", i.e. largely according to Congressional taste (as President
       Gerald Ford once observed, and as the whole world observed in the trial of President
       Clinton in 1998), so British academics and their books can be off-loaded without warning
        for whatever university bosses or publishers happen to deem "good cause." There has
       been no serious security of tenure for British academics since the Education Reform Act
       of 1988.

        **    The modern panic about 'child sex abuse' reflects three developments. (1) Belief in the
        'recovered memories' [often false] of neurotic women has allowed prosecutions. A whole
        industry has grown up of hysterical 'therapists' who know little psychology and believe that
        virtually any psychological problems can be traced to early 'abuse.' (2) Feminists have insisted
        that the former police practice of not prosecuting crimes committed more than ten years ago
        (except in the case of murder) be abandoned. (3)The closure of many mental subnormality
        hospitals has put people back into 'the community' who have childish interests and little
        ability to form sexual relations with adults. Notoriously, low IQ people are susceptible to
        pornographic stimulation and wish to act out their fantasies. (By contrast, classical
        paedophilia -- like that of the creator of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll -- was focused on
        near-pubescent children and was conspicuously non-violent. Despite their peculiarity placing
        them at grave risk of censure, intelligent paedophiles have provided the backbone of much
        educational, religious and social work endeavour -- being prepared to work for modest
        salaries because of a genuine interest in children that was often of obsessional intensity and
        accompanied only rarely by sexual expression. )

"The path of a psychologist in England is indeed not made smooth or attractive in any way."
      William McDOUGALL, 1938, in a letter congratulating Raymond Cattell on his appointment at Clark University, USA.

CHRIS BRAND WRITES:

What does all this add up to? I am a rationalistic libertarian realist who has fallen foul of modern academia -- which I had thought protected free speech. (It is funny that, thirty years ago, I left the Prison Psychological Service in England so that I could confront the failure of prison authorities and psychologists alike to solve 'the crime problem.' I had hoped to enjoy the security -- when speaking one's mind -- that universities were presumed to allow. Today, the crime problem is 'solved' by jailing more people than ever before; and I cannot lecture or have my book published.)
      I did not take the trouble to belong to any political party, church or trade union. My dissatisfaction with the egalitarianism of modern educationalists, feminists and conservatives can be seen in my reviews over the years for Nature, Times Higher and Personality & Individual Differences and in my recent articles for Sweden's Financial Times [Finanstidningen]. Though today's neosocialism of Messrs Blair, Clinton and (perhaps) Schroeder allows people more choice than in 1950 as to how they spend their incomes, its uniformitarianism still casts a blight on education, marriage and health care -- three areas in which I believe the present dragooning of people must cease. I am not alone in viewing the modern welfare state as providing not true rights and entitlements but a new form of serfdom -- see Harvard's top historian, Emeritus Professor Richard Pipes, 1999, Property and Freedom.
      I regard a proper reinstatement of respect for intelligence and its biological basis as the way forward from a century of disillusion with traditional religion and illusion with the totalitarian ideologies of communism and fascism. Since 1945, the liberal West has won a great victory for the principles of the free market. Communism (or socialism, as it was called in the Soviet Union), for years thought feasible by intellectuals, has collapsed in ignominy. Yet while Western writers now acknowledge economic competition as necessary for civilization and progress, there has been insufficient recognition that people have different intellectual abilities, health needs and sexual preferences. More freedom is needed in these areas too -- always assuming that people will take personal responsibility for their own decisions.
     The arrival of the new eugenics (via artificial insemination, genetic engineering and cloning) will soon concentrate politicians' minds wonderfully on these issues. People themselves will demand the best possible progeny (just as, in various races, they currently seek blonde hair, straitened and luxuriant hair, skin lightening, breast enhancement, penile enlargement etc.); and it will equally plainly be wrong for them to burden the rest of society with the novel and sometimes risky procreational choices that they will make. Hopefully, a new commitment to liberty will arise along with the new realism about the human condition. The alternative -- that egalitarians will take control of breeding, effectively nationalizing it after a half-century of pushing back the enormous role in human affairs which states had assumed by 1945 -- is unthinkable. (Aldous Huxley once attempted to the feat of imagination, in Brave New World.)
      At present, people on the political left like to deny the importance of genetic and racial factors and call people like me 'racist.' (I am certainly a race realist and what the modern 'anti-Nazi' left likes to call a 'scientific racist' [as were Immanuel Kant, Voltaire, David Hume, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Emile Zola, Sir Francis Galton, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, William McDougall, and D. H. Lawrence -- see e.g. K. Malik, 1996, The Meaning of Race].) Yet the strange denial of genetic factors which were all the rage with left-wing people in the first half of twentieth century will probably change quickly once a baby's eye colour, skin colour, hair colour, hair crinkliness and future IQ can be chosen by parents and medical personnel. As the left sees the chance of creating, at last, its long-sought 'utopia' in which none have 'advantages' over others, the prospect of a new totalitarianism will be real. It will probably be supported by many feminists who will welcome the opportunity of lesbianism-loving designer babies while continuing their careers. Now is the time to insist that society should be based upon individuals and upon the choices and contracts which they themselves make (and which they support with suitable financial provision or insurance). In preference to the communitarianism that seems to provide the only coherent impetus behind the political 'Third Way' of Britain's 'New Labour', I advocate contractualism as the backbone of Fourth Way politics for the Millennium.
      Currently, I spell out the contractual idea in two essays, 'Sex and the Twenty-First Century'* and 'Liberating the Past from the Future, and the Future from the Past.'** But the hurly-burly of assertion of realism and the need for responsible personal choice continues in the William McDougall NewsLetter.

CB vs PC NEWS May 2000 – September 2003

FOR SOME TEN RECENT PUBLIC BOOK REVIEWS BY BRAND
DEALING WITH INTELLIGENCE, EDUCATION, EUGENICS AND RACE

GO TO Amazon Books (Brand) AND Heredity 2003.

 

FOR THREE RECENT ARTICLES, GO TO The Occidental Quarterly.


For updated coverage of 'Babe Baggers'

(men having female partners markedly younger than themselves),

see http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk/index4.htm.

 

 

RECENT BIG DIARY STORIES

Harvard's top neoMarxist scoundrel, palaeontologist S. J. Gould, 60, pops his clogs

"Extreme multiculturalism is withering on the vine," says top Blairite

Men are God's gift to women, says seminal New York University research!

Hereditarian psychologist discovers What Women Want

Brand was hounded from E. LU. for "innuendo", Times Higher discovers
IQ correlates .74 with basic mental speed – corroborating 1980's views of eugenicists

New York Times backs use of IQ tests

Top Times columnist wants Geneva asylum seeker provisions scrapped

Ex-professor slams UK universities' grade inflation

Eugenic fertility assistance offered in London

Sydney, Australia, wants no more immigrants

London NHS surgeon demands English-speaking nurses

Spectator backs transportation realism (first advocated in TgF NewsLetter)

UK broadsheets doubt antiracism, multiculturalism, paedohysteria

Muslim fanatics attack Jews, Christians and Hindus

Starkey and Brand confront Scottisocialists

Harvard prof. plans "to abolish the white race"

MIT prof., top psychologist Steven Pinker, converts to hereditarianism
– but not to discussing race!

>50% of Scots want no more 'ethnic immigration'

Prince Charles deplores Political Correctness
Streaming (tracking) experiment to continue in Glasgow school

Japan and Hungary boost funding of responsible childbirths

Professor James Flynn dismisses secular intelligence rise (the 'Flynn/Lynn Effect')

Glasgow Uni rebuffs paedohysteria

No gains from private education -- Scottish research

'Lone' Washington ('White') sniper turns out to be Black Farrakhan backer

Forensic farce at Brit. Psycholotashitical Socy. as 'criminal profilers' fall out

Parliamentary committee deplores "overenthusiastic" paedohunting

New Labour backs "master classes" for gifted children

"Most muggers are Black," London police admit

"Paedophilia not the worst sin," say R.C.'s

America still a segregated country -- but no Republican may mention it

"The most important book of the 21st century" reviewed

NYTwits learn of C.R.A.C.K.

Bush to ban affirmative racism

Rise of asylum seeker realism after Birmingham policeman murdered

LUniversity of Edinburgh infested with mice

New scepticism about paedohysteria

Paedophile pop is top

NuLabour Blair wants 40% cut in asylum swindling

LUniversity of Edinburgh slammed by Sunday Times for affirmative classism

Houston learns about C.R.A.C.K.

Heredity reviewer Brand slams complex interactionism

Sexual harassment is initiated by females

Top Muslims say they back Britain’s enemies and will “never forget”

Madman Insane’s tortures exposed

Black, British and jailed – 25% of young Black men require custody

Brand shocks Harvard sociologists

Western political realignment begins

–       left consigned to work the seam of national socialism!
Why Rich Men Bag Beautiful Women

‘Landowner calls for Scotland to be kept racially pure’

Brain-based sex differences admitted by Cambridge psychologist

Mary Magdalene: Christianity’s Hidden Goddess

New politics? – NeoLiberal Imperialism versus Socio-Nationalism?

Dutch race realist Pim Fortuyn was murdered by a leftist

Landowner calls for Scotland to be kept racially pure

Biology-based sex differences admitted by Cambridge psychologist

Sexcellent news at Easter: a girlfriend for Jesus!

Eugenics realism in Cyprus

‘Asian’ exposed as hopelessly confusing term

Politics confused as no-one finds the neolibereal answer to neoimperialism

RC’s devastated by paedohysteria and their own cowardice

PeeCee’s grip on schools and publishers revealed

Richard Dworkin’s ‘affirmativism’ denounced

Pursuit of affirmative action disgraces peecee New York Times

T.A.T.U. kiddie-lesboes sweep the West, even allowed on BBCI

Black loons turn on friendly lefties

Top leftie mag (London Review of Books) accepts eugenics

Chris Brand named “noted psychologist” in Spectator

Size does matter – especially if buggery is to be enjoyable and  risk-free

Prince William comes out, declaring his “love of Africa”

Paedophilia chic

‘WHAT WENT WRONG WITH CONSERVATISM?’

FLYNN-ISM CONFOUNDED

New York Times nosedives due to its affirmative racism

BLACK-ON-BLACK MAYHEM

THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF GENERAL INTELLIGENCE  published

‘WHY WHITE GUILT?’

AFFIRMATIVE RACISM SPLITS COURT (5-4 IN FAVOUR, 6-3 AGAINST)

POLICING LESBIANISM 

Censorious LUniversity of Edinburgh falls to 18th in ‘Table of Tables’

Skin colour linked to IQ

Germaine Greer talks up delights of ephebophilia

Testosterone boosts creativity

IQs of African troublespots only 65

British girls begin their sex lives with intercourse before age 16

Feminazies lose rape accusation case against TV celebrity John Leslie

 

  

In May, 2000, I suspended publication of the McDougall NewsLetter, having said there over the previous two-and-a-half years most of the things that need to be said in today's neosocialist times about race, sex, IQ, political correctness and of course paedohysteria. Back issues will stay on the Net for a while, but otherwise email cbrand@cycad.com.

In June, 2000, I began work as a consultant researcher for the Woodhill Foundation* (USA) – a registered charity that seeks to develop realistic policy options and provide practical help for adolescents on the left hand side of 'the bell curve.' The UK's best-known geneticist, pinko Steve Jones, called me a "buffoon" and attempted a refutation of my views in the Guardian (7 June -- http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,191890,00.html).

*  STATEMENT FROM THE WOODHILL FOUNDATION
The Woodhill Foundation was founded by a Houston software millionaire to "do good" in a wide variety of areas.  As a Life Member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), one of his causes is naturally the defense of the freedom of thought, speech, and scientific inquiry wherever in the world these core Western principles are challenged.  The cause of Mr. Chris Brand of Edinburgh, Scotland is a particularly egregious example of today's neo-Nazism since it involved actual book-burning and the destruction of a researcher's career for nothing more than expressing currently-unfashionable opinions.
    It is the position of The Woodhill Foundation that government classification of people by race is an affront to the dignity and liberty of all citizens.  We believe that everyone should be judged on their individual characteristics and actions, not by the alleged characteristics of groups to which they are assigned by some bureaucrat.  Scientists, on the other hand, should be free to study group differences and report their results without fear of censure or retribution.
    The Woodhill Foundation has no opinion on the substance of Mr. Brand's academic work.  No one at The Woodhill Foundation has read his now-banned book THE g FACTOR, nor do we have the background in psychology, statistics, and other disciplines to evaluate such a work in any case.  We note, however,  that the study of racial differences is proving fruitful in such areas as the design of custom drugs to better treat hypertension and understanding why the AIDS virus spreads differently in different populations.
    THE WOODHILL FOUNDATION DOES NOT NECESSARILY THE IDEAS OR INDIVIDUALS TO WHICH IT PROVIDES SUPPORT.  THE FOUNDATION BELIEVES THAT THE FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS, EVEN UNPOPULAR ONES, IS THE CORNERSTONE OF A FREE PEOPLE AND PROVIDES SUPPORT WITH THAT PRINCIPLE IN MIND.

 

In August, a big British Sunday tabloid egged on paedohysterics to attack my views. Out of sober statements that, according to research evidence, classical paedophilia does no harm on average -- assuming it involves a bright child over 12 and involves no force -- and thus that distinguished elderly paedophiles should not routinely be threatened with 30-year jail terms, the News  of the World (Scottish Edition, 20 viii '00, p. 7) managed to contrive a positive endorsement from me of the wide range of murders, tortures, rapes, kidnaps and buggeries which it likes to call paedophilia.

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Is this the sickest man in Britain?

Paedophile sex 'good for kids', says Scots author

BY Douglas Wight

{With a nice-enough picture of me in my Egypt suit holding The g Factor outside Edinburgh LUniversity Psychology Department. Caption: 'WHIPPING UP A STORM: Chris Brand has been blasted by campaigners.'}

FURY has erupted after an outrageous Scots author insisted that paedophiles can be GOOD for 12-year-old boys. . . .

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PS  The Noose of the World is now so committed to paedohysteria that it carries "FOR SARAH" beneath its front-page masthead. It may be that the paper will soon realize the merit of a distinction between paedophilia and paedosadism -- allowing it to continue to demand life imprisonment, castration, deportation and other ostracization of the latter while becoming a bit more reasonable about the paedophilic activities of Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) and St Augustine. (Yes, the latter acquired a ten-year-old girlfriend when he was in his thirties (Confessions, Book III). Initially, the saint planned to wait to marry her at the then legal age of twelve; but in fact the girl (or possibly another girl) fell pregnant and left him with a son before Augustine had got around to tying the knot. Of course, Augustine wept buckets as well as swiftly taking another mistress. But twentieth-century paedophiles also avail themselves of the consolations of Christian repentance.)

PPS  Newly discovered letters of Lewis Carroll's reveal that correspondence with under-age girls figured prominently among the activities of his last days (Times 22 viii '00). One girl, the daughter of a colleague, was sent a plum cake. This is in line with Carroll's observation to his sister that – though Dean of Christ Church and a busy mathematician – he spent 50% of his time arranging or enjoying assignations with young children. England's literary giant, the art and social critic John Ruskin (1819-1900) has also been named as a paedophile in a new biography which makes him out as more sensible than some previously thought. According to a review in the New Yorker (10 viii '00), Ruskin was smitten by several under-age girls in his life, not just by the delicious Rose La Touche whom he first met when she was 9, proposed to at 14 (she rejected marriage but continued the relationship) and lost to a chest condition at 22.

Can't find enough paedophiles to attack? What about organizing a local focus group to condemn paediatricians (as attempted in Newport, Wales – see above), palaeographers, palaeontologists, palaeotypographers, palaeologists (who study antiquities), palilogists (who repeat words for emphasis), pedagogues, pedestrians, paedobaptists (who advocate infant baptism, filthy swine), pedicurists (surgeons obsessed with feet), pedologists (soiled scientists – ugh!), pedometrists (who measure distances travelled by foot, the slimy toe-suckers) or petrobrusians (who reject infant baptism, filthy swine).
      Whatever you do, don't get out of practice. After paedophiles, there will be plenty other minorities to hound into suicide or emigration!

To new readers:  Please remember that I only became involved in saying anything about the dreaded subject of paedophilia because, from May 1996 to August 1997, I ran The g Factor NewsLetter in order to keep alive the memory of my de-published book. The TgF NewsLetter -- like its successor, the McDougall NewsLetter -- backed a wide range of 'realisms' about race, sex, class and age; but it was when, in October 1996, I first attempted a little realism about paedohysteria that Edinburgh LUniversity's Chaplain decided to call in the tabloids to bully E.LU. to fire me. FIRE BRAND was the Daily Record's font-72 headline filling its front page. I do in fact know quite a bit more about paedophilia than most psychologists, but I am far from being an expert in a subject surrounding which there is much more heat than light. I have thus based myself on published researches, the most important being two from Germany and the USA which examined late-teenagers who had once been exposed to paedophile advances, molestations and relationships. In both studies, there was scant evidence of psychological harm, especially for boys. For details, see ISSUES of scientific importance to differential psychology.
      Looking on the bright side, an advantage of the present paedohysteria culminating logically in paid or unpaid transportation of the offenders is that the same policy -- once very successful, when America and Australia were used to receive convicts -- might then be extended to other British criminals, especially to those of low IQ and high recidivism. Currently there is a big labour shortage in Siberia; and other enterprising countries like Sri Lanka and Thailand might well find a place on a sun-kissed beach for educated paedophiles so long as they arrive handing over perhaps UKP30,000 in hard cash -- the cost of a year's imprisonment in Britain. It remains to be seen just what would be the charge for other criminal products of Britain's years of socialist housing schemes and for the traitorous educationalists who have dumbed down the UK's once formidable state education system.

In September, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said children should be grouped and taught according to their ability (BBCTV1 News, 8 ix '00, 21:00). Britain's comprehensive schools were in poor shape, said the New Labour leader; and the answers would be:
1) specialization -- each school trying to find something it could do well, then attracting pupils from a wide area;
2) more special schools for gifted children;
3) grouping of all children by ability and teaching them accordingly.

Some hope!

In October, my beloved Pearl and I announced our engagement. We found our paths crossing in Edinburgh Central Reference Library earlier this year and first stopped to chat one sunny afternoon, 2 v '00, outside the Royal Scottish Museum. We plan to marry next year and to settle in Edinburgh.

In November, Channel 4 TV began three programmes on race (Sundays, 8p.m.). The first was very slow going and elementary – much of it only a contentless parade of graphics 'wizardry.' The programme admitted that concern with race was making something of a come-back after a virtual veto from 1945. But it insisted on talking only of "*apparent* differences between the races in ability."
      I was given a mention in despatches at the Independent [London], 28 xi. Columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown gave herself the headline 'Scientists should not be so scared of racism that they ignore facts' and went on to say "'This restraint has become a massive and unjustifiable taboo today that is both foolish and destructive." See http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=43701.

In December, Edinburgh LUniversity, Principal Dame Stewart Sutherland awarded an M.Sc. degree in the History of Art to my East Asian fiancée and gave a sermon to a thousand assembled new graduates and their parents on the inspiring theme of "the four C's"– cash, cash, cash and cash. To Edinburgh University's Student Representative Council (SRC), Dame Stewart had earlier explained the LUniversity's values for the new millennium (reported in the student magazine Hype 2000/2001, Term 1, Week 9): "Our first priority will be to maximize our net income through attracting additional fee-paying students, commercializing, and a fund-raising campaign." Students would need to help the embattled LUniversity, the Dame maintained, urging the SRC to stop wasting its time complaining about pathetic library facilities and to go out and recruit new students.

Thanks to the kindness of a French supporter who works in Tunis, Philippe Gouillou, an online 2001 edition of THE g FACTOR: GENERAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS is now available FREE at http://www.douance.org/qi/brand/tgf.htm.

In January 2001, Phil Rushton's paper showing African students (University of Witwatersrand) have a mean IQ of only 84 [see McDougall NewsLetters 1998] was published: J. Philippe RUSHTON & Mervyn SKUY (2000). 'Performance on Raven's Matrices by African and White university students in South Africa.' Intelligence 28, 4, 251-265. The authors note: "Black South African students are a highly selected population. They have passed standardized school matriculation exams, entered university and been chosen for a first-year course in Psychology on the basis of academic performance. Assuming that these students are 1 standard deviation {15 IQ points} above the population mean, the results are in accord with earlier work finding that Africans, in general, average a tested IQ of 70."

The Edinburgh LUniversity newspaper Student re-discovered my existence (24 i 01). The article is a reasonable summary of the Brand affair by UK journalistic standards and especially has some fair-minded touches like exempting me from being a supporter of paedosadism; however, it fails to mention that Edinburgh LUniversity finally paid me the top amount I could have been awarded by a Scottish court for unfair dismissal.

Return of the Racist Lecturer

BY Brian Forrest

{Using the nice above engagement picture of Pearl and me, subtitling it
'RACIST LECTURER WITH 'INTELLIGENT' FIANCEE: Brand'}

NOTORIOUS PSYCHOLOGIST Christopher Brand, who claimed that some forms of paedophilia were acceptable, has finally had his "racist" book The g Factor published on the Internet.
   Mr Brand, who describes himself as a "scientific racist", worked at the University of Edinburgh for 26 years before being sacked in 1997 for "disgraceful behaviour" and "gross misconduct."
    The Uni launched an inquiry after he claimed on his Internet newsletter to support Daniel Gajdusek, a Nobel prize-winning scientist who faced a possible 30-year jail term for non-violent paedophilic molestations in America.
    Brand also gained notoriety when he claimed black people were less intelligent than whites and single mothers should be encouraged to "breed" with higher IQ men to escape the poverty trap.
    He said: "Academic studies and my own experience suggest that non-violent paedophilia with a consenting partner over age 12 does no harm so long as the paedophiles and their partners are of above-average IQ and educational level. As lead choirboy and soloist, I met lots of paedophiles who would press florins and half-crowns into my horrid little palm when I was 13. For better or worse, I never 'fancied' any of them nor did anything but allow a little fondling. . ."

Brian Forrest declines to add my own continuation:
". . . on my part it was not a sexual experience. But I was never feminazistically inclined to condemn them: these men were well above average in intelligence, well educated (two were writers), amused me far more than the average geography teacher, gave me useful tips (where to find the G spot etc...) and never frightened me in the least. "

    Since his sacking, Mr Brand has been forced to accept menial work as a waiter. The g Factor has only been produced in photocopied form, but a supporter in France has now put the entire book on the Internet.
    Mr Brand said: "I am glad to tell you that The g Factor is now available on the Net. The book that political correctness doesn't want you to see is being posted in a slightly revised edition by the French evolutionary psychologist, Philippe Gouillou, to whom I am much indebted."
    Original publishers John Wiley & Sons Inc. withdrew the book after its New York head office said Brand's politically incorrect claims about race differences were "repellent."
    The former lecturer is now the UK consultant for the Woodhill Foundation, a right-wing American charity which offers drug addicts $200 as an incentive to be sterilised.

These offers are of course made -- via Mrs Barbara Harris's charity, C.R.A.C.K. -- to drug-addicted women who have already given birth to a drug-addicted child.

Brand recently announced his engagement by saying: "I have fallen in love with an oriental miss who combines practicality and charm in an astonishing fashion and, of course, fully testifies to an East Asian IQ of >110 as hypothesized in my book The g Factor."

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Student's article was followed up by other  Scottish newspapers, e.g. Daily Record, 29 Jan. 01, p. 16:

RACE ROW LECTURER TO MARRY ASIAN GIRL
...and he doesn't like women much either

EXCLUSIVE by Marie Sharp

{Using a nice engagement picture of Pearl and me, subtitling it
'TOGETHER: Brand and Pearl announced their engagement on the internet}

A PSYCHOLOGIST whose book was withdrawn because of his racist views is to marry an oriental student.
    Sacked Edinburgh University lecturer Chris Brand claimed black people are genetically less intelligent than whites and has even voiced support for paedophiles.
    But he has announced plans to wed a young woman he calls Pearl, describing her as "my oriental princess."
    Announcing his wedding on the Internet, Brand said they met while researching at Edinburgh's Central Reference Library.
    The only details he gave about his fiancée is that she studies at a Scots university. He has refused to reveal her surname.
    Brand was sacked by Edinburgh University in 1997 over his book, The g Factor.
    In it, he claimed intelligence was genetic and white people were supreme.

No, I actually said what studies show, that Asians and Jews have the highest average IQs – well over IQ 110.

He said black Africans had the lowest IQ and black Americans had slightly higher intelligence due to the 25 per cent white DNA in them.
    The book was later withdrawn by publishers Wiley & Sons for being "repellent", but a French fan has published a revised version on the Internet.
    Among Brand's suggestions are giving black, Hispanic and female children less challenging lessons in schools.

Actually, The g Factor stoutly maintains that females have the same average IQ as males.

    He says the education system is dumbed down to suit less intelligent minorities.
    Brand said {at my website} : "Black schoolchildren, whatever their gifts in rhythm, jumping, boxing and social skills, can't be expected to perform as well academically as white children."
    And he has also attacked women. In his book {no: at my website} , he said they were inclined to deceitful promiscuity, suggesting one in seven fathers were not the biological dads of their kids.

Actually, I have always stuck with a 'one in ten' estimate – though the 'one in seven' estimate did appear in the Times.

Adopting

    But he was sacked

The article has made three references to my sacking but none to Edinburgh LUniversity's payment of £12,000. . .

when he called for clemency for a man who faced 30 years' jail in the US for indecent acts involving a teenage boy in his care. The man, who was an American Nobel prize winner, had been involved in adopting nearly 50 children.
    But Brand has repeatedly claimed there is a difference between "non-violent paedophilia" by introverted, intelligent men and a violent act by a low-IQ attacker.
    And he approves of sexual acts {well, I say they do no demonstrable harm on average} with a child over 12 who is intelligent, saying: "The child can, in fact, psychologically benefit."

Why introduce specious double quotes when even a half-educated reader would know I must have said
". . .benefit psychologically"?

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Preparing for a General Election in the U.K., Labour announced it would support separate 'academic' and 'vocational' tracks for pupils in state schools from age 14 (Times 31 Jan., p. 1). Pupils would also be allowed some picking and mixing from both tracks, thus re-instating something like the tripartite division of secondary education (grammar, technical, modern) that Sir Cyril Burt had helped develop – it lasted for a brief period around 1950. (Currently, the Bush administration in the USA is being persuaded to insist on academic education for all children, as urged by a left-liberal-egalitarian-environmentalist educational historian, Professor Diane Ravitch. But there are powerful arguments for allowing parents and children more choice, especially in response to children's IQ levels  -- see BRAND, C. R., 2001, Radical traditionalist.)

In February, the Daily Mail (Scotland, 3 Feb., pp. 16-17) carried a two-page spread designed to show how this traditionally Conservative newspaper was continuing its latter-day policies of antiracism, feminazism and paedohysteria. Titled ''Oriental Miss' and her racist lover', the article says that -- as well as being a racist and supposedly saying "abused children often benefit from the suffering inflicted on them by paedophiles" -- I came from a "privileged" background and am "balding" and notorious for laziness, taking lots of holidays and belittling women. Naturally, then, it asks, "How can this beautiful Asian girl stay with him?" Needless to say, no intelligible answer can be supplied; and "one friend" of Pearl is wheeled in (anonymously) to say the relationship "defies logic." The article thus concludes ominously: "When will Pearl's fascination with Chris Brand end?" To any who know the facts, the article will long provide a fascinating demonstration of how today's Conservatives have capitulated to PeeCe. Here is the article, with corrections.

'Oriental Miss' and her racist lover

His objectionable views on race, intelligence and child abuse led to his sacking as an academic, so how can this beautiful Asian girl stay with him? She never read his book. . .

BY Matthew Knowles

{With three nice pictures, one of Pearl , one of CRB and one of Pearl 's graduation lunch in Edinburgh University's Teviot Row Union.}

In a modern society where ethnic differences and huge age gaps are no barrier to relationships, the sight of a middle-aged man with a young lover is not uncommon. But to all those who know the man in question, the fact that his girlfriend is an Asian must come as a shock.
  Disgraced former Edinburgh University psychology lecturer Chris Brand holds views on race, women and child abuse which even the most broad-minded of people would find offensive.
  He claims black people are less intelligent than whites, women are devious manipulators, and abused children often benefit from the suffering inflicted on them by paedophiles.

I claim only that, on average, no demonstrable long-term harm comes to adolescents from paedophiles. – Paedosadists are a different matter.

  His opinions, regularly posted on his Edinburgh University website, eventually led to his downfall. He was sacked from his £45,000-a-year job after he attacked an American court's decision to prosecute a paedophile, a 72-year-old Nobel Prize winner, who had abused more than 50 boys in his care.

1. I was paid £25,000p.a. by E.LU.
2. It is police and prosecutors who prosecute, not courts.
3. The prosecution brought outrageous charges that could have attracted a 30-year jail term for Daniel Gajdusek – even though no violence or harm was claimed.
4. Gajdusek was charged with molesting only one of his 50 adopted children.

  So what can the slightly built {not an accurate description – Pearl  is petite but firmly and generously built}  
attractive, 32-year-old Taiwanese university student Pearl, see in a balding man almost twice her age, who describes himself as a 'scientific racist'?
  Twice divorced father-of-three Brand, whose hero is the late Conservative politician Enoch Powell, admits he never dreamed he would be engaged to a young Asian student at the age of 57.
  But none are more surprised than his former colleagues and students he worked with and taught over 26 years.
  To them {who, actually – Commissar Halla Ballsoff?} Chris Brand is an opinionated bigot, as condescending towards woman as he is to ethnic minorities.
  He refers to Pearl as his 'Oriental princess' or 'Oriental miss' and claims he is besotted with her, but the relationship seems impossible to reconcile with his offensive and bigoted views.
  The couple met while Pearl, studying a four-year course {actually one-year} in history of art, was researching the painter Salvador Dali in Edinburgh's Central Reference Library.
  Brand said he only sat near to he so he could keep an eye on the library's clock face, but over the weeks he would regularly make a bee-line to her table {I did no such thing} so he could see her 'nice, smiling face.'


But they did not speak {seriously} to each other until May last year, when their paths corsses as Pearl was heading towards an art exhibition at the Royal Scottish Museum in Chambers Street.
  They introduced {themselves to} each other and agreed to meet up later that day. {No, we immediately went off to a nearby café called Négociants and spent the rest of the day together.} Their romance blossomed, and the pair spent more and more time together until eventually Pearl moved into Brand's two-bedroom {three-bedroom} spacious apartment in Edinburgh's southside.
  Their relationship is not without its critics. Fellow students, aware of Brand's reputation at the university, warned Pearl against getting involved with the lecturer.
  Her friends {how many?}, many of them from her home country, were surprised that such an obviously intelligent young girl could have any attraction to a man who belittles women and looks down on other races.
  One friend said last night: 'Pearl is a clever girl – she has worked hard to get to this country and attain the qualifications she has. But her relationship with Brand defies logic. He readily condemns other races as having lower intelligence, his attitude towards women is deplorable and he is well past his prime.' {Not what my doctor says.} She has fallen in love with Edinburgh and its way of life {Pearl  has never said any such thing.} and I think it would have been hard for her to leave. She still wants to continue her studies and I think that would have been hard for her in Taiwan. {Hard? In what way?}