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Anybody remember Chris Brand the controversial Edinburgh University lecturer? Basically he published a book with various theories of IQ related to race and was eventually sacked from Edinburgh University.
This is the story as told by a Brand-friendly website:
"Christopher Brand is the author of The g Factor. This 1996 book on general intelligence (g)* was favourably reviewed in the top science magazine Nature on 5 May, 1996; but by that time the book had already been withdrawn from UK bookshops by its publisher. Wiley & Sons (Chichester, UK) had been told by its head office in New York that Brand's politically incorrect claims about race differences were "repellent." Wiley's decision to withdraw the book gave the green light for 'anti-racists' in Scotland to demand that Brand endure an inquisition for his 'scientific racism' which would hopefully end in his being publicly humiliated and banned from teaching.
Readily affirming hereditarian views on race, IQ, and sex differences, but repeatedly asking that his book be re-published and actually read by his critics, Brand was eventually fired by Edinburgh University in August 1997. His dismissal followed twenty-six years of unblemished academic service and one year of him being publicly denounced by his own University Principal as "obnoxious." Though he was cleared by senior Edinburgh academics of a raft of spurious charges -- of "unfairness" as a teacher and examiner, of lack of repute as a researcher, and of having done "damage" to the University -- a mere one page of e-mail which he had copied to the Edinburgh University Chaplain was judged to have been a sackable "disgrace."
A view from an anti-Brand article:
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, writes Bryan Forrest.
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".
Inquiry
The University 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 that black people were less intelligent than whites and single mothers should be encouraged to "breed" with higher IQ men to escape the poverty trap.
Does anybody remember this? I knew quite a few people who picketed his lectures at the time. How do you feel about the reactions to his academic research/controversial academic research in general? Anybody know of any similar cases? |
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