Ben Goldacre

Ben Goldacre
OBE
Goldacre in 2009
Born
Ben Michael Goldacre[3]

(1974-05-20) 20 May 1974 (age 50)[4][5]
London, United Kingdom
EducationMagdalen College School, Oxford
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Author, journalist, physician, science writer and scientist
Employers
Known for
Parent(s)Michael Goldacre
Susan Goldacre[3]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsEpidemiology
Clinical Informatics
Evidence Based Medicine
Reproducibility[2]
Websitewww.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/ben-goldacre Edit this at Wikidata

Ben Michael Goldacre OBE (born 20 May 1974)[3][4][5] is a British physician, academic and science writer. He is the first Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford.[7] He is a founder of the AllTrials campaign and OpenTrials,[6] aiming to require open science practices in clinical trials.[3][8][9][10][11]

Goldacre is known in particular for his Bad Science column in The Guardian, which he wrote between 2003 and 2011, and is the author of four books: Bad Science (2008), a critique of irrationality and certain forms of alternative medicine; Bad Pharma (2012), an examination of the pharmaceutical industry, its publishing and marketing practices, and its relationship with the medical profession;[12] I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That,[13] a collection of his journalism; and Statins, about evidence-based medicine.[14] Goldacre frequently delivers free talks about bad science; he describes himself as a "nerd evangelist".[15][16][17]

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  3. ^ a b c d e Anon (2024). "Goldacre, Dr Ben Michael". Who's Who (176th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2736. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U254076. ISBN 9781399409452. OCLC 1402257203. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ a b Ben Goldacre at Library of Congress
  5. ^ a b Anon (2016). "Ben Michael Goldacre, Date of birth May 1974". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016.
  6. ^ a b Goldacre, Ben; Gray, Jonathan (2016). "OpenTrials: towards a collaborative open database of all available information on all clinical trials". Trials. 17 (1): 164. doi:10.1186/s13063-016-1290-8. PMC 4825083. PMID 27056367. Open access icon
  7. ^ "Oxford launches new Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science and Ben Goldacre announced as the first Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine". Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. University of Oxford. 23 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  8. ^ Goldacre, Ben (2016). "Make journals report clinical trials properly". Nature. 530 (7588): 7. Bibcode:2016Natur.530....7G. doi:10.1038/530007a. PMID 26842021.
  9. ^ Slade, Eirion; Drysdale, Henry; Goldacre, Ben (2015). "Discrepancies Between Prespecified and Reported Outcomes". Annals of Internal Medicine. 164 (5): 374. doi:10.7326/L15-0614. PMID 26720309. S2CID 207537735.
  10. ^ Ben Goldacre; Nicholas J DeVito; Carl Heneghan; Francis Irving; Seb Bacon; Jessica Fleminger; Helen Curtis (12 September 2018). "Compliance with requirement to report results on the EU Clinical Trials Register: cohort study and web resource". The BMJ. 362: k3218. doi:10.1136/BMJ.K3218. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 6134801. PMID 30209058. Wikidata Q57262049.
  11. ^ Ben Goldacre on the Muck Rack journalist listing site Edit this at Wikidata
  12. ^ "Pick your pill out of a hat", economist.com, 29 September 2012.
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  14. ^ "Statins | Ben Goldacre | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
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  16. ^ Ben Goldacre at TED
  17. ^ "Event – Ben Goldacre: I Think You'll Find it's a Bit More Complicated Than That".