David Robert Grimes

David Robert Grimes is a mathematical modeller, medical researcher, broadcaster, and author based in the school of medicine at Trinity College Dublin. He is an expert in the public understanding of medical science, and contributes to outlets including the Guardian, Scientific American, The New York Times, The BBC, the Financial times. Irish Times, and more. He appears frequently in the news media on topics from medical disinformation, the anti-vaccination movement and bogus cancer cures to climate change and conspiracy theories. His research focuses on public understanding of science, research integrity,
and mathematical modelling. He was joint recipient of the 2014 Nature/Sense about Science John Maddox Prize for standing up for science and is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is the author of "The Irrational Ape - Why we fall for disinformation, conspiracy theory, and propaganda". .