About the Authors

Ben Goldacre

ben.goldacre@phc.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Research Fellow, Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

BG has read the journal's policy and has the following conflicts: BG is a co-founder of AllTrials.net, which campaigns internationally for all trials to be registered with their full methods and results available. BG receives academic funding from the Wellcome Trust, and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, to work on various problems, including publication bias. BG receives income from popular science books and public speaking on problems in science, including publication bias.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: BG. Agrees with manuscript results and conclusions: BG. BG has read, and agrees that he meets, ICMJE criteria for authorship.