Pallab Ghosh

Science correspondent, BBC

As a BBC science correspondent, he covered milestones from Dolly the sheep to gravitational waves and the discovery of the Higgs boson. His reporting also addresses disputes over genetic modification, cloning and the social consequences of emerging technologies. In 2010, he interviewed stem-cell researchers who alleged that influential reviewers blocked competitors’ work; these were scientists’ allegations, disputed by a journal representative. Such reporting scrutinises science’s own quality-control mechanisms and demonstrates why institutional authority cannot replace questions about evidence, fairness and how scientific claims reach the public.