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Article: Lecturer hits out at 'academic perverts'
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- February 26, 1998
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CONTROVERSIAL lecturer Chris Brand today labelled bosses at
Edinburgh University "academic perverts".
Mr Brand - sacked after claiming paedophile sex was acceptable
if
the child was intelligent and gave consent - said the university
was "a total disgrace".
And he said he would no longer be able to work with "unthinking"
colleagues in the psychology department, whatever the result of a
university inquiry into his conduct.
"The university is a total disgrace, they have betrayed the cause
of academic freedom and they are nothing better than academic
perverts," he said.
"They claim I have damaged the university's reputation, but where
is the evidence?"
Mr Brand was sacked last year after a ...