Ben Goldacre
British physician
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| 2022 | Became the first Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and director of Oxford's newly-established Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. |
| 2020 | Principal investigator of the OpenSAFELY collaboration, which created a software platform to analyse records of 24 million NHS patients to provide detailed risk factors for hospital deaths from COVID-19. |
| 2018 | Named Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) 'For services to Evidence in Policy' in the New Year's Honours List. |
| September 2018 | Appointed Chair of the NHS HealthTech Advisory Board by Matt Hancock. |
| 2015 | Moved to the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, joining a project funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. |
| October 2014 | Released the book I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That, a collection of his previous articles. |
| March 2014 | Worked on a systematic review of statins side effects, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, which he later criticized for potentially incomplete reporting. |
| May 2013 | Wrote the foreword to the 'Official Guidebook' of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. |
| February 2013 | Released 'Bad Pharma' in the United States and Canada, expanding his critique of drug company research and marketing practices to a North American audience. |
| 2012 | Received the Philosophy Now Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity. |
| 2012 | Appointed as a Wellcome Trust research fellow in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. |
| September 2012 | Published 'Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients' in the United Kingdom, critically examining pharmaceutical industry practices and research methodology. |
| June 2012 | Collaborated with the Behavioural Insights Team of the UK government on a policy paper about the use of randomised controlled trials. |
| November 2011 | Ben Goldacre's 'Bad Science' column in The Guardian concluded after running since 2003. |
| July 2010 | Awarded Honorary Doctor of Science from Loughborough University. |
| March 2010 | Wrote the foreword to a reissue of Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare by Imogen Evans, Hazel Thornton, Iain Chalmers and Paul Glasziou, published by Pinter & Martin. |
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