Ben Michael Goldacre was born on 20 May 1974 and is a British physician, academic and science writer.
21 Facts About Ben Goldacre
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Ben Goldacre is the first Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford.
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Ben Goldacre is a founder of the AllTrials campaign and OpenTrials to require open science practices in clinical trials.
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Ben Goldacre frequently delivers free talks about bad science; he describes himself as a "nerd evangelist".
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Ben Goldacre is the son of Michael Ben Goldacre, a professor of public health at the University of Oxford, and Susan Traynor, lead singer of 1970s pop band Fox, both of whom are Australian.
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Ben Goldacre is the nephew of Robyn Williams, a science journalist, and the great-great-grandson of Henry Parkes, politician and journalist who is considered the father of the Australian Federation.
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Ben Goldacre studied medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class Bachelor of Arts honours degree during his preclinical studies in 1995 in Physiological Sciences.
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Ben Goldacre was a visiting researcher in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Milan, working on fMRI brain scans of language and executive function.
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Ben Goldacre received a Master of Arts degree in philosophy from King's College London in 1997.
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Ben Goldacre passed the Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Part II examinations in December 2005 and became a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
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Ben Goldacre was made a research fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry in London in 2008, and a Guardian research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, in 2009.
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In 2015, Ben Goldacre moved to the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, joining a project funded by a grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.
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Ben Goldacre was known for his weekly column, "Bad Science", which ran in the Saturday edition of The Guardian from 2003 until November 2011.
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Ben Goldacre has criticised anti-immunisation campaigners, Brain Gym, bogus positive MRSA swab stories in tabloid newspapers, publication bias, and the makers of the product Penta Water.
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Ben Goldacre has been a particularly hardline critic of the nutritionist Gillian McKeith.
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Ben Goldacre continues to cite Rath as a proponent of harmful pseudoscience.
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Ben Goldacre contributed to The Atheist's Guide to Christmas, a charity book featuring essays and anecdotes from 42 well-known atheists and apatheists, on the subject of "the power of ideas".
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Ben Goldacre has had several articles published in the British Medical Journal on the MMR vaccine, science journalism, and related topics.
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Several of Ben Goldacre's articles were assembled into the October 2014 release I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That.
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Ben Goldacre was appointed Chair of the NHS HealthTech Advisory Board by Matt Hancock in September 2018.
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Ben Goldacre has appeared on Geoff Marshall's YouTube channel expressing his love for railways during an episode about the least used station in Oxfordshire, Finstock.