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Also known as B Goldacre, Goldacre

British science writer and doctor

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  • מדע רע
  • Mala ciencia
  • Irrationality (2012 Edition)
  • Not in Your Head
  • Kotu Ilac

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Ben Goldacre is a British science writer and psychiatrist. He is the author of The Guardian newspaper's weekly Bad Science column and a book of the same title, published by Fourth Estate in September 2008. Goldacre is the son of Michael Goldacre, professor of public health at the University of Oxford, the nephew of science journalist Robyn Williams, and the great-great-grandson of Sir Henry Parkes. Bad Science website <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ben+Goldacre">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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5 total works indexed

  1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

    · 2015 · cited 75,814x

  2. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

    · 2012 · cited 53,934x

  3. HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

    · 2015 · cited 22,014x

  4. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

    · 2009 · cited 19,930x

  5. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,770x

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human
Given name
Michael
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
London
Occupation
writer
Languages spoken
Italian
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Work location
Oxford
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Ben Goldacre
date of birth
1974-05-20
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Ben Goldacre
birth name
Ben Michael Goldacre
relative
Henry Parkes
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