Benjamin Michael "Ben" Goldacre, MRCPsych is a British physician, academic and science writer. As of 2014 he is a Wellcome research fellow in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a founder of the AllTrials campaign to require open science practices in clinical trials. Goldacre is known in particular for his "Bad Science" column in The Guardian, and is the author of two books, Bad Science, a critique of irrationality and certain forms of alternative medicine, and Bad Pharma, an examination of the pharmaceutical industry, its publishing and marketing practices, and its relationship with the medical profession. Goldacre frequently delivers free talks about bad science?he describes himself as a "nerd evangelist." 

January 1st, 1974 in United Kingdom (Age 51)