本·戈德契（Ben Goldacre） 是獲奬作傢、廣播員、醫學博士，專門拆穿造謠記者、政府報告、製藥公司、公關公司和庸醫的所謂科學證據。 他在牛津大學和倫敦大學受過醫學教育，目前研究流行病學。2003-2011年，本為《衛報》（the Guardian）每周的“科學敗筆”專欄撰稿。《科學敗筆》（Bad Science ）暢銷全球，銷量超過五十萬冊，名列非小說書籍首位，已經齣版瞭二十五種語言的譯本。他的新書《製藥劣跡》（Bad Pharma 將全球製藥業巨頭置於顯微鏡下，呈現齣一片駭人聽聞、驚心動魄的混亂場景。.

作者的上一本書《科學敗筆》（Bad Science ）好評如潮，授權種語言二十六種語言：俄羅斯、德國、韓國、意大利、愛沙尼亞、剋羅地亞、葡萄牙、土耳其、中國、颱灣、泰國、西班牙、斯洛文尼亞、希臘、波蘭、荷蘭、巴西、保加利亞、以色列、日本、羅馬尼亞、塞爾維亞、立陶宛、挪威、匈牙利、埃及。

2009年入圍塞繆爾·約翰遜奬（the Samuel Johnson Prize ）最終決選名單。

2009年入圍皇傢學會科普圖書奬（the Royal Society Prize for Science Books ）最終決選名單。

2008年9月齣版以來，每周都名列暢銷書----全球暢銷超過五十萬冊。

'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own drugs, which distort and exaggerate the benefits by design. When these trials produce unflattering results, the data is simply buried. All of this is perfectly legal. In fact, even government regulators withhold vitally important data from the people who need it most. Doctors and patient groups have stood by too, and failed to protect us. Instead, they take money and favours, in a world so fractured that medics and nurses are now educated by the drugs industry. Patients are harmed in huge numbers. Ben Goldacre is Britain's finest writer on the science behind medicine, and 'Bad Pharma' is a clear and witty attack, showing exactly how the science has been distorted, how our systems have been broken, and how easy it would be to fix them.