Emily Willingham and David Robert Grimes are the winners of the 2014 John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science.SENSE ABOUT SCIENCE
Emily Willingham and David Robert Grimes have won the 2014 John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science. Willingham and Grimes have written about controversial topics for publications such as Forbes and The Scientist, and The Guardian, respectively. They were selected for their “courage in promoting science and evidence on a matter of public interest, despite facing difficulty and hostility in doing so,” the U.K.-based charity Sense About Science wrote in its announcement of the prize, issued this week (October 27).
Willingham, a U.S.-based biologist and freelance journalist, has written evidence-driven analyses on subjects including school shootings, home birth, and autism.
Grimes is a physicist and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, where he studies oxygen distribution in tumors. He has written about ...
