John Ioannidis

John P. A. Ioannidis
Ioannidis in 2015
Born (1965-08-21) August 21, 1965 (age 59)
New York City, U.S.
NationalityAmerican, Greek
Alma materUniversity of Athens Medical School
Athens College
Known forMetascience
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine, metascience
InstitutionsStanford School of Medicine

John P. A. Ioannidis (/ˌiːəˈniːdɪs/ EE-ə-NEE-diss; Greek: Ιωάννης Ιωαννίδης, pronounced [i.oˈanis i.oaˈniðis]; born August 21, 1965) is a Greek-American physician-scientist, writer and Stanford University professor who has made contributions to evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, and clinical research. Ioannidis studies scientific research itself - in other words, meta-research - primarily in clinical medicine and the social sciences.

He has served on the editorial board of over twenty scientific journals including Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) and The Lancet.

Ioannidis's 2005 essay "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" was the most-accessed article in the history of Public Library of Science (PLOS) as of 2020, with more than three million views.[1][2]

Ioannidis was a prominent opponent of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, and he has been accused of promoting conspiracy theories about COVID-19 policies and public health and safety measures.[3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ Browse the 'Best in Class' articles from PLOS – Top Views, Public Library of Science, archived from the original on October 22, 2020, retrieved October 15, 2020
  2. ^ Ioannidis, John P. A. (August 30, 2005), "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False", PLOS Medicine, 2 (8): e124, doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124, PMC 1182327, PMID 16060722, 3,128,135 View
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  6. ^ Antiochou, Konstantina; Psillos, Stathis (2022), Oswald, Steve; Lewiński, Marcin; Greco, Sara; Villata, Serena (eds.), "How to Handle Reasonable Scientific Disagreement: The Case of COVID-19", The Pandemic of Argumentation, vol. 43, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 65–83, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-91017-4_4, ISBN 978-3-030-91016-7