Ben Goldacre

BEN GOLDACRE is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and medical doctor who specialises in unpicking dodgy scientific claims made by scaremongering journalists, dodgy government reports, evil pharmaceutical corporations, PR companies, and quacks. He has written a weekly “Bad Science” column in the Guardian since 2003, and has made acclaimed documentaries for BBC Radio, including “The Placebo Effect” and “The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists.” Trained in Oxford and London, with brief forays into academia, and works full-time as a medical doctor in London.