Ben Goldacre
Ben Michael Goldacre (born 1974) is a British physician, academic and science writer. As of 2012 he is Wellcome research fellow in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Goldacre is known in particular for his "Bad Science" column in The Guardian, and is the author of two books, Bad Science (2008), a critique of irrationality and certain forms of alternative medicine, and Bad Pharma (2012), an examination of the pharmaceutical industry, its publishing and marketing practices, and its relationship with the medical profession.
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