In the view of the Panel, this should involve the services of a qualified senior epidemiologist.

So I'm a doctor, but I kind of slipped sideways into research, and now I'm an epidemiologist.

But the joke is, an epidemiologist likes to arrive at an epidemic right here and ride to glory on the downhill curve.

This is actually a direct quote from an epidemiologist who's been in field of HIV for 15 years, worked on four continents, and you're looking at her.

Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the blindingly obvious nutrition claims to the very subtle tricks of the pharmaceutical industry.