John Bohannon
American science journalist and scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Bohannon is an American science journalist and scientist who is Director of Science at Primer, an artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, California.[1] He is known for his career prior to Primer as a science journalist and Harvard University biologist,[3] most notably with his "Gonzo Scientist" online series at Science Magazine[4] and his creation of the annual "Dance Your PhD" contest.[5] His investigative journalism work includes:
- critiquing the Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties (2006)[6][7]
- uncovering serious problems with the peer review process at a large number of journals that charge fees to authors (2013)[8][9]
- showing how uncritical mass media can be of claims made in fake scientific papers (2015)[10]
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Alma mater | University of Oxford (PhD) |
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Thesis | The role of the WSS operon in the adaptive evolution of experimental populations of Pseudomonas Fluorescens SBW25 (2002) |
Doctoral advisor | Paul Rainey |
Website | www |
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Bohannon is involved in the effective altruism movement. In July 2015 he became a member of Giving What We Can, an organization whose members pledge to give at least 10% of their income to effective charities.[11]