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Ben Michael Goldacre OBE (born 20 May 1974) [3] [4] [5] is a British physician, academic and science writer. He is the first Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford . [ 7 ]
Goldacre writes in the introduction of Bad Pharma that he aims to defend the following: . Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques which are flawed by design, in such a way that they exaggerate the benefits of treatments.
Each chapter deals with a specific aspect of bad science, often to illustrate a wider point. For example, the chapter on homeopathy becomes the point where he explains the placebo effect, regression to the mean (that is, the natural cycle of the disease), placebo-controlled trials (including the need for randomisation and double blinding), meta-analyses like the Cochrane Collaboration and ...
Michael John Goldacre (born 3 January 1944 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian-born British medical doctor and academic. He has been a fellow of Magdalen College since 1985 and was awarded a Title of Distinction as Professor of Public Health at the University of Oxford in 2002. [ 1 ]
Pages in category "Books by Ben Goldacre" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bad Pharma;
Prosecutors claimed Chloe Driver, 24, murdered her 13-month-old daughter because she wanted her husband Benyamin Ben Michael all to herself. But defense attorneys said it was her mental illness ...
Goldacre is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ben Goldacre (born 1974), British physician, academic, and science writer; Michael Goldacre (born 1944), medical doctor and academic, father of Ben
Ben Affleck's first directorial effort since 'Live by Night' stars Matt Damon as the Nike basketball guru who spearheaded a landmark celebrity endorsement deal.