Bruce Graham Charlton is a retired British
medical doctor
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
who was Visiting Professor of Theoretical Medicine at the
University of Buckingham. Until April 2019, he was
Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry at
Newcastle University
Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is ...
. Charlton was editor of the controversial and non-
peer reviewed journal ''
Medical Hypotheses'' from 2003 to 2010.
Biography
Charlton graduated with honours from the
Newcastle Medical School in
Newcastle upon Tyne, took a doctorate at the Medical Research Council Neuroendocrinology group, and did postgraduate training in
psychiatry and
public health. He has held university
lectureships in physiology, anatomy, epidemiology, and psychology; and holds a master's degree in English literature from
Durham University
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in
North East England
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. His thesis, a study of the work of
Alasdair Gray, was completed in 1989.
From 2003 to 2010, Charlton was the solo-editor of the journal ''
Medical Hypotheses'', published by
Elsevier. After
HIV/AIDS denier Peter Duesberg
Peter H. Duesberg (born December 2, 1936) is a German-American molecular biologist and a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his early research into the genetic aspects of cancer. He ...
published a paper in ''Medical Hypothesis'' arguing that “there is as yet no proof that HIV causes AIDS", the journal came under fire for its lack of
peer review. The paper was withdrawn from the journal citing concerns over the paper's quality and “that
tcould potentially be damaging to global public health.” Elsevier consequently revamped the journal to introduce peer review, firing Charlton from his position as editor, due to his resistance to these changes.
At October 2012, a worldwide campaign including 198 researchers published a critical paper defending Charlton and the idea of editorial review.
Publications
Charlton has published a number of books, and maintains various blogs.
Blogger.com profile
some of the "blogs" listed are in fact single books or essays.
* with RS Downie, ''The making of a doctor: medical education in theory and practice'' (1993)
* ''Psychiatry and the Human Condition'' (2000
* with Peter Andras, ''The Modernization Imperative'' (2003
* ''Thought Prison: the fundamental nature of political correctness'' (2011
online copy
* ''Not even trying: the corruption of real science'' (2012
* ''Addicted to Distraction: Psychological consequences of the modern Mass Media'' (2014
* with Edward Dutton, ''The Genius Famine: why we need geniuses, why they're dying out, and why we must rescue them '' (2016
online copy
See also
*Evolutionary psychiatry
Evolutionary psychiatry, also known as Darwinian psychiatry, is a theoretical approach to psychiatry that aims to explain psychiatric disorders in evolutionary terms. A branch of the field of evolutionary medicine, it is distinct from the medical p ...
*Evolutionary medicine
Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is the application of modern evolutionary theory to understanding health and disease. Modern biomedical research and practice have focused on the molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying heal ...
* Bryan Caplan
Bryan Douglas Caplan (born April 8, 1971) is an American economist and author. Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University, research fellow at the Mercatus Center, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and former contributor ...
* Steve Sailer
* David Pearce
References
External links
Bruce Charlton's Notions
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of the University of Buckingham
Academics of Newcastle University
Medical journal editors
Alumni of Newcastle University
21st-century English medical doctors
British medical researchers
British psychiatrists
Alumni of University College, Durham