Ben van der Merwe (covered by others here, here), the social justice activist journalist, has been working for some years now to produce various hit pieces on researchers associated with the London Conference on Intelligence (which now has a Wikipedia page thanks to him). His efforts have largely succeeded in that his pieces and the various copies by other journalists resulted in shut down of our yearly conference at University College London (UCL). The impact on the actual conference proceedings were however fairly minimal because we simply moved it to another location the next year. Ben uses the usual journalist method of making things seem outlandish when actually they are quite close to mainstream or expert opinion on the topic (see
The many lies of Ben van der Merwe
The many lies of Ben van der Merwe
The many lies of Ben van der Merwe
Ben van der Merwe (covered by others here, here), the social justice activist journalist, has been working for some years now to produce various hit pieces on researchers associated with the London Conference on Intelligence (which now has a Wikipedia page thanks to him). His efforts have largely succeeded in that his pieces and the various copies by other journalists resulted in shut down of our yearly conference at University College London (UCL). The impact on the actual conference proceedings were however fairly minimal because we simply moved it to another location the next year. Ben uses the usual journalist method of making things seem outlandish when actually they are quite close to mainstream or expert opinion on the topic (see