Ben Goldacre Biography

Ben is a best-selling author broadcaster campaigner medical doctor and academic who specialises in unpicking the misuse of science and statistics by journalists politicians quacks drug companies and more.
His first book Bad Science has sold over 500000 copies to date is published in 18 countries and reached number one in the UK non-fiction bestseller charts. Bad Pharma is on bad behaviour in the pharmaceutical industry and medicine more broadly: it is a top ten UK best seller. His Collected Journalism and Papers is the perfect toilet book for a nerd.
In policy work he co-authored this influential Cabinet Office paper in 2012 advocating for randomized trials in government and setting out mechanisms to drive this forwards. In 2013 he conducted an independent external review for the Department for Education on improving the creation and use of evidence in the teaching sector. He is the co-founder of the AllTrials campaign – now supported by over 50000 individuals 120 patient groups GSK and all major academic and medical bodies in the UK – working towards a concrete fix for the ongoing problem of clinical trial results being withheld. He has given evidence on numerous occasions to multiple parliamentary select committees including the Public Accounts Committee (withheld clinical trials and Tamiflu) Science and Technology (withheld clinical trials homeopathy) Health (privacy and electronic patient data) and Culture Media & Sport (libel).

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