tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40148442024-03-12T16:37:09.394-07:00IQ & PC -- By Chris BrandHeretical thoughts on intelligence and political correctness -- written by Chris Brand, posted by John RayJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger859125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-91369326301748774542017-09-15T05:48:00.001-07:002017-09-15T05:48:27.095-07:00
OBITUARY
An obituary for Chris is now online here. It is in a journal he often wrote for and is by a former student of his plus his wife and his son
JRJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-91171513938944534542017-06-18T22:49:00.001-07:002017-06-18T22:52:32.239-07:00
Funeral notice
In one week's time, Chris' funeral and memorial and thanksgiving service will take place in Edinburgh.
"In lieu of flowers, donations should be made to the Galton Institute (a learned society concerned with the scientific study of all aspects of human heredity)."
Also see a photo of Chris. Shiou thinks this one capture his character very well -- gentlemanliness, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-73235575845585141202017-06-08T04:58:00.000-07:002017-06-08T06:06:06.832-07:00
A tribute to Chris from Dr Stuart H Russell
I was very saddened to hear of Chris’ passing – he was one of the few sane voices prepared to speak out on the topics of IQ, race, general intelligence, and the Politically Correct, unholy trinity of “Racism, Sexism and Homophobia”.
As a non-psychologist myself, I first became aware of his work around 1997, after he was so badly treated by Edinburgh JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-18144931666395383152017-06-05T19:41:00.001-07:002017-06-05T19:43:45.446-07:00
Funeral of Chris Brand
I have received the following email from Dr. Shiou-Yun Fang
The date for Chris' funeral and memorial and thanksgiving service has just been set. They will take place on the 26th of June (Monday). The funeral will start at 2:30pm, for family and friends. Then is the memorial and thanksgiving service for the public which is going to be held in St Peter's Church, Lutton JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-84397459112393280242017-05-28T21:10:00.001-07:002017-05-29T03:30:51.085-07:00
IN MEMORIAM: CHRIS BRAND
The last 12 hours have been very tearful for me. After a long battle, Chris Brand has just passed away. Chris and I were born on opposite parts of the world but we could well have been twins. We were the same age, we both had a classical education (though Chris acquired his in circumstances much more distinguished than mine) and both of us were very JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-2043590500336637682016-11-07T03:19:00.001-08:002016-11-07T03:19:06.421-08:00WHITE FLIGHT
The Times covered prominently Britain’s White flight story (2 xi):
....Areas with high proportions of minority ethnics in 2001 have become even more non-white in the 2000s, the research found.
The white British population of Slough fell from 58.3 per cent in 2001 to 34.5 per cent a decade later, while in Birmingham the drop was from 65.6 per cent to 53.1 per cent, Leicester from JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-5803811830728232532016-11-03T04:38:00.002-07:002016-11-03T04:38:25.692-07:00HILLARY’S BEST PAL WAS/IS MUESLI
As star US Democrat was thrown once more into the messy business of defending her e-mail practices, it turned out her best friend and trusted aide of thirty years, a “second daughter,” she said, was of Muesli origin (Sunday Times, 30 x).
Hillary and her men. Is there no end to the trouble their sex lives have caused her? Having lived through Bill JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-77641594625684736732016-10-30T05:00:00.001-07:002016-10-30T05:00:27.246-07:00
AU REVOIR, AMERICA!
As the USA looked set – barring FBI intervention -- to continue down its path to Mexicanisation (with a left-talking elite enriching itself from a slave-labour people awash with drugs and yaggery), there was plenty of room for wry humour in the one-time country’s ‘far right’ organs.
In VDARE, star columnist Ann Coulter (who should have been The Donald’s intellectual JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-8233853544651734882016-10-24T04:14:00.002-07:002016-10-24T04:14:07.503-07:00
TOP LIB-LEFTIE AUTHORETTE/JOURNALISTE* SUCCOURS TRUMPOS
Lionel Shriver defends anger of anti-migrant Trump supporters
The ‘tomboy’ Lionel Shriver – married to a Brit -- said she sympathised with White Americans who had rallied to the controversial immigration policies advocated by US presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Speaking at the UK’s Cheltenham Literature Festival, the US-born JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-5976867400334605332016-10-18T03:26:00.002-07:002016-10-18T03:26:21.610-07:00
PEECEE UK SLAMMED BY TOP ANTI-EXTREMISM ADVISER
A report by HMG’s own ‘integration tsar,’ Dame Louise Casey, attacked the government for failing to get a grip on the pace of immigration and its impact on public services until too late (Sunday Times, 9 x). The report criticised the lack of a strategy to integrate communities, in allowing some areas to operate as if they were Muslim-only JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-34730680011771598832016-10-10T05:00:00.001-07:002016-10-10T05:00:09.947-07:00
COMIC OFFERS NEW –ISM
Accused of “casual racism” for jesting about “half-educated tenement Scots” being over-represented in the running of English newspapers, Fawlty Towers comic genius John Cleese, 75, replied that his remark was not racism but “culturalism” (Huffington Post, 3 x). JC thus offered a solution as to how to describe putatively-fairly-deep-seated group differences without JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-89691558727023904072016-10-03T05:01:00.002-07:002016-10-03T05:01:37.973-07:00
IDEALISTIC ILLUSION EXPOSED
The leader of the Hungarian Reformed Church, Hungary’s second-largest religious denomination, blasted Germany’s immigration policies as a “false calculation” and “delayed suicide” in a televised interview.
Speaking on the morning programme of the state all-news channel M1, Bishop István Bogárdi Szabó said that representatives of the Reformed church in GermanyJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-91792164751384292462016-09-26T04:46:00.001-07:002016-09-26T04:46:33.190-07:00
Big-headed babies are brightest
The size of babies’ heads at birth is strongly linked to their future success, with larger head circumferences and brain volume associated with higher intelligence, scientists have found.
The finding is among the first to emerge from data gathered by UK Biobank, in which 500,000 Britons are being studied over the long term to discover the links between their JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-57526323099791355642016-09-19T03:30:00.002-07:002016-09-19T03:30:48.257-07:00
(A FEW) ACADEMICS ADVOCATE FREE SPEECH
Demands from students for “safe spaces” and for campus bans on ‘controversial‘ speakers were inhibiting intellectual debate among academics and prompting scholars to shun risks, a new book argued (Times, 12 ix). "Why academic freedom matters"
It accused many luniversity lecturers and professors of “a cowardly abdication of responsibility” in failing to JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-8156417451317020072016-09-13T02:23:00.001-07:002016-09-13T02:23:02.172-07:00
MULTICULTI MP EXPOSED
Prominent Labourite and Privy Councillor Keith Vaz, Britain’s longest-standing ‘Asian’ (in fact Indian [Goan-parented]) parliamentarian, stood down as Chairman of the prestigious Home Office Select Committee of the Commons when the Sunday Mirror (4 ix) front-paged its ‘sting’ proof of his using rent boys and hard drugs – no doubt to the embarrassment of his wife andJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-24005321645956744262016-09-05T04:33:00.002-07:002016-09-05T04:33:09.748-07:00
TOP UNI BLASTS PEECEE
The University of Chicago sent new students a blunt statement opposing some of the hallmarks of campus political correctness (New York Times, 27 viii). “Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called trigger warnings, we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-67402797599464416822016-08-29T02:28:00.002-07:002016-08-29T02:28:45.671-07:00
MUSLIMS SHOCKED BY GERMAN INDULGENCE
As the Syrian etc. invasion of Merkel-mad Germany proceeded apace, even Muslis were shocked by idealistic Western tolerance of child marriage. German law generally mandated 18 as the minimum age for marriage, but Bavaria alone was reckoned to be hosting some 700 child brides, and a court in Bamberg regularized a marriage of a 24-yr Muselman to his JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-46822247164916938902016-08-22T02:44:00.001-07:002016-08-22T02:44:18.660-07:00
BLACK WRITER ADMITS BLACK COUNTRIES HOPELESS
Chigozie Obioma, writing in "Foreign Policy", August 9, 2016 says:
"....Early African-American intellectuals and cultural elites saw that the future of their race could not be advanced by endless protests or marches of “equality” or “justice.” It could only be done through the restoration of the trampled dignity of the black man. Great men like JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-75079111835203083692016-08-13T02:44:00.002-07:002016-08-13T02:44:26.851-07:00
CIVILIZATION DEFENDED
Noting MSM’s tired habit of trying to rubbish ‘old White men’ and the fantastically prosperous, artistic, law-abiding and exploratory culture which they had created, Taki Magazine’s Jim Goad let fly (25 vii).
"The oniony-looking Rebecca Onion of Slate asserted that it made “no sense” to judge groups by their historical inventions, despite the fact that a given JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-53413748866104457942016-07-26T04:15:00.001-07:002016-07-26T04:15:54.349-07:00
PIOUS PEECEE HOPES DASHED
Twice, in 2008 and 2012, Americans had voted in half-Black Chicago agitator Barry Hussein Obarmy to solve their racial problems; but an ABC News poll found (17 vii) that almost two-thirds of those surveyed said race relations were now generally bad – a total reversal of the sentiment detected in the first weeks of Obama’s presidency. A majority said the problem was JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-92142297030442351852016-07-17T05:00:00.001-07:002016-07-17T05:00:02.716-07:00
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
Whether UK politicians could get round the ‘xenophobic’ LEAVE referendum demand of voters was answered as Andrea Leadsom (q.v.) gave up her ambition to lead the ‘Conservative’ party. Her offence had been to allude to her mother-of-three status as being a helpful qualification in one seeking to run the country – and to fail to mention the compensating advantages JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-6652794056408533102016-07-11T03:42:00.001-07:002016-07-11T03:42:07.740-07:00
INTEGRATION DEMANDED
In the latest move to deny citizenship to those who balk at Swiss culture, authorities rejected the naturalization application of two Muslim girls who refused to take school swimming lessons because boys were present (USA Today, 28 vi).
The girls, ages 12 and 14, who live in the northern city of Basel, had applied for Swiss citizenship several months ago, but their JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-60625511579967348782016-07-04T04:08:00.000-07:002016-07-04T04:08:24.150-07:00
RACE REALISM RE-ASSERTED
The case for acknowledging race differences – rather than denying them as simplistic, slight or arbitrary – was neatly summarized by three academics (led by Bo Winegard from Florida State University – home to the leading race realist, the late Glayde Whitney) in Quillette, 23 vi.
Authors’ Conclusion:
Most people believe that there are human races. They believe this JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-13251852777057888302016-06-27T05:17:00.002-07:002016-06-27T05:17:44.378-07:00
HOW CUCKSERVATISM WORKS
As the shooting of Labour MP Holy Jo Crawford by a loony loner and the subsequent instant orchestration of mass Westminster mourning took what little wind there had been out of LEAVE’s faintly nationalistic sails, polite conservatives, afraid of being called extremists, could not bring themselves to remark the humanitarian cause that had not figured on Jo’s JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014844.post-59418003194709852022016-06-20T04:56:00.001-07:002016-06-20T04:56:54.025-07:00
GENES PREDICT SUCCESS
Re-invention of the wheel continued by university staff needing a grant – with predictable though otherwise perfectly satisfactory results. See below:
Association for Psychological Science, June 6, 2016:
Psychological characteristics link genes with upward social mobility, according to data collected from almost 1000 individuals over four decades. The data JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com