A biography for Ben Goldacrehasn’t been written yet.
“If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.”
“Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.”
“You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.”
“In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.”
“Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.”