Bruce Charlton

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Bruce Graham Charlton''' is a retired British medical doctor who was visiting professor of Theoretical Medicine at the University of Buckingham.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section3a.t-3.html?_r=4&[ NY Times]; {{cite web|url=http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/directory/professor-bruce-charlton|title=Professor Bruce Charlton|publisher=University of Buckingham|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507004155/http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/directory/professor-bruce-charlton|archive-date=2012-05-07}}</ref> Until April 2019, he was Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry at Newcastle University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/psychology/staff/profile/bruce.charlton |title=Dr. Bruce Charlton |publisher=Newcastle University }} [https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7414311.stm BBC].</ref> Charlton was editor of the controversial and not-conventionally-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 in North East England.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.madinamerica.com/author/bcharlton/ | title=Bruce Charlton, Author at Mad in America | access-date=25 December 2013 | archive-date=29 December 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229133613/http://www.madinamerica.com/author/bcharlton/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> His thesis, a study of the work of Alasdair Gray, was completed in 1989.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Charlton |first1=Bruce Graham |title=The literature of Alasdair Gray |url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6450/1/6450_3750.PDF?DDD11+UkUDh:CyT |website=Durham E-Theses Online |access-date=28 October 2019 |date=1989}}</ref>

From 2003 to 2010, Charlton was the solo-editor of the journal ''Medical Hypotheses'', published by Elsevier.<ref>{{cite web|last=Charlton|first=Bruce|url=http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/rip-medical-hypotheses.html|title=RIP Medical Hypotheses|publisher=medicalhypotheses.blogspot.co.uk|date=11 May 2010|access-date=13 April 2012}}</ref> In 2009 HIV/AIDS denier Peter Duesberg published a paper in ''Medical Hypothesis'' falsely arguing that “there is as yet no proof that HIV causes AIDS", leading to protests from scientists for the journal's lack of peer review. The paper was withdrawn from the journal citing concerns over the paper's quality and “that [it] could potentially be damaging to global public health.” Elsevier consequently revamped the journal to introduce conventional peer review, firing Charlton from his position as editor, due to his resistance to these changes.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://www.nature.com/news/paper-denying-hiv-aids-link-secures-publication-1.9737|title = Paper denying HIV–AIDS link secures publication|last = Corbyn|first = Zoe|date = 5 January 2012|journal = Nature|access-date = 2016-04-13|doi = 10.1038/nature.2012.9737|s2cid = 154231868|doi-access = free}}</ref> In October 2012, 198 researchers signed a paper in ''Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics'' criticizing the changes made by Elsevier.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Steinhauser|first1=Georg|last2=Adlassnig|first2=Wolfram|last3=Risch|first3=Jesaka Ahau|last4=Anderlini|first4=Serena|last5=Arguriou|first5=Petros|last6=Armendariz|first6=Aaron Zolen|last7=Bains|first7=William|last8=Baker|first8=Clark|last9=Barnes|first9=Martin|date=October 2012|title=Peer review versus editorial review and their role in innovative science|journal=Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics|language=en|volume=33|issue=5|pages=359–376|doi=10.1007/s11017-012-9233-1|pmid=23054375|s2cid=12647543|issn=1386-7415}}</ref>

==Publications== Charlton has published a number of books, and maintains various blogs.<ref>[https://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535 Blogger.com profile]; some of the "blogs" listed are in fact single books or essays.</ref> * with RS Downie, ''The making of a doctor: medical education in theory and practice'' (1993) * ''Psychiatry and the Human Condition'' (2000; [http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/psychhuman.html online copy]) * with Peter Andras, ''The Modernization Imperative'' (2003; [http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/modernization-imperative.html online copy]) * ''Thought Prison: the fundamental nature of political correctness'' (2011; [http://thoughtprison-pc.blogspot.ch/ online copy]) * ''Not even trying: the corruption of real science'' (2012; [http://corruption-of-science.blogspot.ch/2013/07/not-even-trying-corruption-of-real.html online copy]) * ''Addicted to Distraction: Psychological consequences of the modern Mass Media'' (2014; [http://addictedtodistraction.blogspot.ch/2014/01/addicted-to-distraction-psychological.html online copy]) * with Edward Dutton, ''The Genius Famine: why we need geniuses, why they're dying out, and why we must rescue them '' (2016; [http://geniusfamine.blogspot.co.uk/ online copy])

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.charltonteaching.blogspot.com Bruce Charlton's Notions]

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