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Bad Science - Dr Ben Goldacre

Dr Ben Goldacre writes about quackery in medical science and is well known for a book called "Bad Science".  He's been dubbed "the Richard Dawkins of medical science" and runs the Website "Bad Science"


Ben Goldacre of Bad Science talks about Sensationalised Science Reporting from Conrad on Vimeo.

Ben Goldacre is a British science writer, doctor and psychiatrist.[1] He is the author of The Guardian newspaper's weekly Bad Science column[2] and a book of the same title, published by Fourth Estate in September 2008.[3]   Goldacre is the son of Michael Goldacre, professor of public health at the University of Oxford,[4] and the pop singer Susan Traynor, aka Noosha Fox,[5] the nephew of science journalist Robyn Williams, and the great-great-grandson of Sir Henry Parkes.[6]