Ben Goldacre
Physician, academic and science writer
Ben Goldacre is a British doctor, university researcher and science writer. He is known for his Bad Science column in The Guardian.
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British Born 1974 in London, United Kingdom
About Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre was born in 1974 and trained as a doctor. He wrote the Bad Science column in The Guardian from 2003 to 2011. He holds the first Bennett Professorship of Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford and directs the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. He also helped found the AllTrials campaign and OpenTrials, which push for open practices in clinical trials. Bad Science, published in 2008, takes a critical look at irrational thinking and some kinds of alternative medicine. It was shortlisted for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Samuel Johnson Prize.