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Psychology professors under attack

By Liz Fekete

1 November 1997

Pressure is growing for the British Psychological Society to expel Richard Lynn after the emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University suggested that the Ice Age made white people more intelligent than blacks because they were forced to develop the intellectual capacity to cope with the cold.

In his new book, The Scientific Study of Human Nature, Lynn argues that racial differences in IQ are genetically determined by thousands of years of evolution in different climates. According to professor Steve Jones, a geneticist at University College, London, Lynn merely 'comes up with a prejudice and chooses the biological theory that best fits it'.

A University of Edinburgh tribunal has decided to sack psychology lecturer Chris Brand who defended paedophilia and scientific racism. Brand had written on an Internet site that some forms of child-sex were acceptable, depending on the age and intelligence of the child, and whether or not they had been paid.

Guardian 9.8.97, Sunday Telegraph 10.8.97

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