Event overview
Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit Invited Speaker Series, 2013/14
Abstract
He’s jailed for 10 years now but how did a British conman sell bogus bomb detectors to Iraq for $85 million? A lack of scepticism cost the lives of an estimated 1,000 civilians in Baghdad. Meirion Jones tells, with the help of video clips and secret recordings, how Jim McCormick and his chums worked the scam around the world and how whistleblowers and a Newsnight team exposed the scandal. This is about multi-million-dollar bribes in Baghdad, and UK PLC turning a blind eye to boost exports, but this is also about the lethal consequences of not basing policy on evidence. Try out the ADE651, which sold for $20,000. See if you can detect a golf ball or explosives, and learn how for a few pennies you can make a fake bomb detector that works every bit as well.
Biography
Meirion Jones is a BBC producer who is in the unusual position of winning the 2013 Scoop of the Year award for a programme which was never broadcast - his exposure of Jimmy Savile as a paedophile. He also won the Daniel Pearl International Award for Investigative Journalism for his reports on toxic waste dumping by Trafigura in Africa. He has exposed everything from the fixing of the 2000 US election, to how Britain helped Israel get the atom bomb, from corrupt politicians to the affair of Mark Stone and the undercover cops, as well as homeopaths and healers.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 2013 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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