Ben Goldacre

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ben Goldacre
Occupation	Doctor
Date Of Birth	May 20, 1974(1974-05-20)
Age	50
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Ben Goldacre Biography

Ben Goldacre is one of the most popular and richest Doctor who was born on May 20, 1974 in England, United Kingdom. Doctor who worked as an Associate Clinical Research Fellow in the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford. He was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in the year 2018.

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Ben Michael Goldacre MBE (born 20 May 1974) is a British physician, academic, and science writer. As of March 2015, he is a senior clinical research fellow at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, part of the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is a founder of the AllTrials campaign and OpenTrials to require open science practices in clinical trials.

Goldacre was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. He studied medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class Bachelor of Arts honours degree during his preclinical studies in 1995 in Physiological Sciences. He edited the Oxford student magazine, Isis.

The parents of his son include Michael Goldacre and Noosha Fox.

Ben Goldacre Net Worth

Ben Goldacre is one of the richest Doctor from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ben Goldacre 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a medical student in Magdalen College, Oxford and earned an honors grade throughout his preclinical studies in the year 1995 in the Physiological Sciences.

He wrote The Guardian’s Bad Science column in The Guardian between 2003 and 2011.

Goldacre is the son of Michael Goldacre, a professor of public health at the University of Oxford, and Susan Traynor (stage name Noosha Fox) lead singer of 1970s pop band Fox, both of whom are Australian. He is the nephew of Robyn Williams, a science journalist, and the great-great-grandson of Sir Henry Parkes, politician and journalist who is considered the father of the Australian Federation. He has two children.

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He has been a particularly hardline critic of the nutritionist Gillian McKeith. While investigating McKeith’s membership of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants, Goldacre purchased a “certified professional membership” on behalf of his late cat, Henrietta, from the same institution for $60. In February 2007, McKeith agreed to stop using the title “Doctor” in her advertising, following a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority by a “Bad Science” reader. In an interview with Richard Saunders of the podcast Skeptic Zone, Goldacre said, “Nutritionists are particularly toxic because they are the alternative therapists who, more than any other, misrepresent themselves as being men and women of science.”

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Ben Ranked on the list of most popular Doctor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ben Goldacre celebrates birthday on May 20 of every year.

In 2008, Matthias Rath, a vitamin entrepreneur, sued Goldacre and The Guardian over three articles, in which Goldacre criticised Rath’s promotion of vitamin pills to AIDS sufferers in South African townships. Rath dropped his action in September 2008 and was ordered to pay initial costs of £220,000 to The Guardian. The paper is seeking full costs of £500,000, and Goldacre has expressed an interest in writing a book about Rath and South Africa, as a chapter on the subject had to be cut from his book while the litigation proceeded. The chapter was reinstated in a later edition of the book, and also published online. Goldacre continues to cite Rath as a proponent of harmful pseudoscience.

What is Ben Goldacre known for?

Ben is a doctor, academic, writer, and broadcaster. He trained in medicine at Oxford and UCL, in psychiatry at the Maudsley, and in epidemiology at LSHTM.

How to contact Ben Goldacre?

You can contact him about work on [email protected] , he can’t reply to everything, but it does all get read.