Ben Goldacre is a British medical doctor and journalist, and the author of the The Guardian newspaper's weekly Bad Science column. He works full-time as a junior doctor for the National Health Service and is a registered psychiatrist. His first book, also called Bad Science, was published by Fourth Estate in September 2008. Goldacre is the nephew of science journalist Robyn Williams, and he is the great-great-grandson of Sir Henry Parkes.
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Ben Goldacre is a British medical doctor and journalist, and the author of the The Guardian newspaper's weekly Bad Science column. He works full-time as a junior doctor for the National Health Service and is a registered psychiatrist. His first book, also called Bad Science, was published by Fourth Estate in September 2008. Goldacre is the nephew of science journalist Robyn Williams, and he is the great-great-grandson of Sir Henry Parkes.
Goldacre studied medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford where he obtained a first class degree in his preclinical studies in 1995. While at Oxford he also edited the student magazine Isis. Before going on to clinical medicine at University College London, he was a visiting researcher in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Milan, working on fMRI brain scans of language and executive function. He received a master's degree in philosophy (funded by the British Academy) from King's College London. He is a member of the Royal College of...
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