Christopher Richard Brand was a British psychological and psychometric researcher who gained media attention for his controversial statements on race and intelligence and paedophilia.
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Chris Brand was a lecturer at University of Edinburgh, from 1970 to 1997, teaching in personality, psychopathology and philosophical problems and researching in factorial psychology.
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Chris Brand wrote that general intelligence is an important factor in determining life outcomes for those with lower scores.
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Chris Brand attributed socio-economic differences among people of African descent to differences in general intelligence.
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From 2000 to 2004, Chris Brand was a research consultant to the CRACK program based in Baltimore, Maryland, which pays drug-addicted mothers $200 to be sterilised.
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Chris Brand wrote articles for American Renaissance and The Occidental Quarterly.
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Chris Brand wrote that "women are inclined to deceitful promiscuity" and that Sigmund Freud was therefore right to ascribe weaker super-egos to women than to men.
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Edinburgh University's Chaplain, a supporter of the Anti-Nazi League, had taken Chris Brand's e-mailed reflections on pederasty to the Scottish press.
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Chris Brand was fired from his 27-year position at Edinburgh University a year later in 1997 after hearings.
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Chris Brand's case became a cause celebre among advocates of academic freedom.