She’s the editor of a venerable British medical journal. But Fiona Godlee is no ivory-tower academic.
In a decade at the helm of the BMJ, Godlee has launched crusade after crusade, many of them stirring storms of controversy. She’s used the pages of the journal to blast US dietary guidelines as based on poor science and biased by commercial interests. She’s taken on governments, too, for spending billions to stockpile a flu medication that does not work — at least, according to a review published by the journal.
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