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Brand is a vocal proponent of IQ testing and a general intelligence factor. His discussion of the disparity between races in average cognitive ability test scores has caused controversy, especially because he supports the hereditarian hypothesis of such differences. Brand refers to himself as a "race realist," and said he doesn't mind being called a "scientific racist."[1] He elaborated, "I want to help people with problems caused by low IQ. The way in which I would try to explain higher levels of crime and out of wedlock births would not be by referring to blackness or race, but to IQ which does most of the explanatory work." IQ redirects here; for other uses of that term, see IQ (disambiguation). ... The general intelligence factor (abbreviated g) is a widely accepted but controversial construct used in the field of psychology (see also psychometrics) to quantify what is common to the scores of all intelligence tests. ... Hereditarianism is the doctrine or school of thought that heredity is at least as important as environment in determining human nature and character traits, such as intelligence and personality. ...

Brand's most controversial views generated headlines in 1996, when he was quoted in the Independent on Sunday recommending that "low-IQ girls" be "encouraged to have sex with higher-IQ boys" to avoid genetic deterioration. "There are plenty of intelligent African men for black girls to be having sex with." Brand has also written that "women are inclined to deceitful promiscuity". His 1996 book The g Factor: General Intelligence and Its Implications lead to accusations of scientific racism and sexism, and his university lectures were protested by the Anti-Nazi League of Edinburgh. The book was subsequently withdrawn by publisher John Wiley & Sons. It was subsequently published on the web by the Woodhill Foundation. 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Scientific racism refers to research which promotes or appears to promote a racist ideology while forgoing the ideals of scientific objectivity. ... The sign of the headquarters of the National Association Opposed To Woman Suffrage Sexism is commonly considered to be discrimination against people based on their sex rather than their individual merits, but can also refer to any and all differentiations based on sex. ... The Anti-Nazi League (ANL) was an organisation set up in 1977 to oppose the rise of far-right groups in Britain. ... Company John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ...

Also in 1996 Brand came to the defense of Nobel laureate Daniel Carleton Gajdusek who had been charged with paedophilia. Brand wrote that, "Academic studies and my own experience [as a choir boy occasionally importuned by older men] 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." He was fired soon after from his 27-year tenured position at Edinburgh University in 1997 for conduct that bring "the university into disrepute."[2] He considered this to be the result of "media-orchestrated outrage at his political incorrectness".[3] 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (born September 9, 1923, Yonkers, New York, U.S.A.) is an American physician and medical researcher, who was the corecipient (along with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976. ... The University of Edinburgh was founded in 1583 as a renowned centre for teaching in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

From 2000 to 2004 Brand was a research consultant to the Woodhill Foundation and its CRACK program based in Baltimore, Maryland, which pays drug-addicted women $200 to be sterilized.[4] Reflecting on the end of his contract he says that he hopes the program "will bring real advances for the eugenic cause".[5] Project Prevention (founded and formerly known as Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity or C.R.A.C.K.) is an American non-profit organization which pays drug addicts and alcoholics $200 for volunteering to receive long-term birth control or sterilization. ... Baltimore skyline at dusk Motto: The Greatest City in America (formerly The City That Reads; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Nickname: Charm City Mob Town B-more Location in Maryland Founded Incorporated 30 July 1729 1797  County Independent city Mayor Martin J. OMalley...

References

Independent on Sunday (London) 14 April 1996, p. 21.

External links

• Chris Brand website
• Summary of Chris Brand controversies, written by Brand.
• "IQ & PC" - Chris Brand's weblog.
• Amazon reviews written by Chris BrandBrand, Chris