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Bruce Graham Charlton is a retired British medical doctor who was visiting professor of Theoretical Medicine at the University of Buckingham. [1] Until April 2019, he was Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry at Newcastle University. [2] Charlton was editor of the controversial and not-conventionally-peer reviewed journal Medical Hypotheses from 2003 to 2010.

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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. [3] His thesis, a study of the work of Alasdair Gray, was completed in 1989. [4]

From 2003 to 2010, Charlton was the solo-editor of the journal Medical Hypotheses , published by Elsevier. [5] 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 The paper was withdrawn from the journal citing concerns over the paper's quality and “that [it] could potentially be damaging to global public health.”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. [6] In October 2012, 198 researchers signed a paper in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics criticizing the changes made by Elsevier. [7]

Publications

Charlton has published a number of books, and maintains various blogs. [8]

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  2. "Dr. Bruce Charlton". Newcastle University. BBC.
  3. "Bruce Charlton, Author at Mad in America". Archived from the original on 29 December 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  4. Charlton, Bruce Graham (1989). "The literature of Alasdair Gray" (PDF). Durham E-Theses Online. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  5. Charlton, Bruce (11 May 2010). "RIP Medical Hypotheses". medicalhypotheses.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  6. Corbyn, Zoe (5 January 2012). "Paper denying HIV–AIDS link secures publication". Nature. doi: 10.1038/nature.2012.9737 . S2CID   154231868 . Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  7. Steinhauser, Georg; Adlassnig, Wolfram; Risch, Jesaka Ahau; Anderlini, Serena; Arguriou, Petros; Armendariz, Aaron Zolen; Bains, William; Baker, Clark; Barnes, Martin (October 2012). "Peer review versus editorial review and their role in innovative science". Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 33 (5): 359–376. doi:10.1007/s11017-012-9233-1. ISSN   1386-7415. PMID   23054375. S2CID   12647543.
  8. Blogger.com profile; some of the "blogs" listed are in fact single books or essays.