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The DISRUPTED SCIENCE Podcast
From the authors of the forthcoming book ”How the Internet Disrupted Science” comes this view of science and society from where the action is — the scientific claims and publishing space. Hosted by Kent Anderson and Joy Moore, listeners receive analyses of current events, updates about the book, and opinions on various topics of interest. Book pre-sales available now. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-the-Internet-Disrupted-Science/Kent-Anderson/9781493094400
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November 5, 2026 — Introducing Ad Fontes Science
Today, we’re introducing Ad Fontes Science, a new division of Ad Fontes Media dedicated to evaluating scientific publications for reliability and relevance. Ad…
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October 21, 2026 — Going Back to School
We’re back in learning mode. It’s a lot of fun and really interesting. To start, we’ve been learning a lot since our book was published, mainly how the topics…
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October 7, 2026 — Leave arXiv Alone
arXiv was the first major preprint server, a practical Internet solution for a community seeking to exchange findings in areas like high-energy physics…
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September 30, 2026 — Flushing Out the Fabulists
The history of science and tech is at some level a history of fabulists — people who imbued new technologies with magical powers of one sort or another, and…
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September 16, 2026 — Negligent Experiments: The Old Normal
Various ideologies have captured the handful of leaders atop the major AI firms currently calling for a slowdown in development — effective altruism…
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September 9, 2026 — A Lack of Consumer Protection
A recent press release from Springer Nature — gussied up to pretend it was a “white paper” representing “findings” and pushed right out through Research…
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August 26, 2026 — Starting Your Journal’s Digital Detox
We have a chapter in our book (“Trapped in the Tech Shrine”) about how scientific publishers became habituated to taking publishing and business advice from…
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August 19, 2026 — Scientific Publishing’s Fauci Reckoning
Today, we want to talk about Anthony Fauci, and our role in making life difficult for him — and, beyond his current travails, for society at large. In 2021…
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August 7, 2026 — Interview with Colette Delawalla
Colette Delawalla is the Founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science (SUFS), an organization that has been at the heart of our national — and now international —…
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August 5, 2006 — Shopify Your Pseudoscience
OA publishing and social media gave pseudoscience information a business model, but how do those people actually sell and fulfill products? The media keep…
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July 29, 2026 — Tales From the Bookstores
We’re back from our first signings, and we have a few stories to share. The signings occurred prior to the book’s official publication date, creating some…
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July 8, 2026 — Eugenics: Our Interview with Anita Chan Revisited
In 2025, Anita Say Chan’s book, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future, was published by the University of California…
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July 1, 2026 — Book Time Approacheth
We’re finally in the long-awaited tunnel to people buying and reading our book. It seems like forever, yet the book also strikes us as more relevant than ever…
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June 18, 2026 — Let’s Talk Impact Factor
Quantification as proxy for qualification of scientific and academic publications has been around for a very long time. Today, we touch a little on the history…
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May 27, 2026 — Relevance Check
We turned the manuscript for our book in almost a year ago now, but we were working feverishly on it around this time given that MAHA was busy undermining…
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May 13, 2026 — The Podcast Pivot
We’ve been doing our podcast for nearly a full year, starting right as we were putting our pencils down from writing the book. We didn’t know quite what to…
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April 29, 2026 — Eric Topol’s Misdiagnosis
Today we take a deep dive into a fake paper involving Eric Topol, one of the most prominent names in what we have to call “mainstream medicine” today. We’re…
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April 15, 2026 — The Authors’ Interview
This week, guest host Michael Magoulias takes the reins to conduct a lighthearted interview of your intrepid authors, partly to take the sting out of this…
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April 8, 2026 — Interview: Susan Wise Bauer
Susan Wise Bauer is a historian and author of The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy. I reviewed her book a few…
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April 1, 2026 — Science Is Not Media
Technology and media have become entangled and confused, so much so that the free speech of “no, thanks, not for us” is now called “censorship” and discussing…
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March 25, 2026 — Interview with Amanda Licastro
Today, we’re joined by Amanda Licastro, Head of Digital Scholarship Strategies and Visiting Associate Professor in English at Swarthmore College. Amanda…
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March 18, 2026 — More Harm Than Good
A recent episode of Paris Marx’s “Tech Won’t Save Us” podcast featured Tim Schwab, author of the 2023 book, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of…
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March 4, 2026 — Why Should We Trust You?
John Wiley & Sons is at it again with its “date anyone with a cute AI” approach, announcing yesterday a deal with OpenEvidence (OE). This is nothing new for…
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February 25, 2026 — Insurgents vs. Incumbents
The last 25 years in scientific publishing has been about privileging technology-backed insurgents — business models, philosophies, belief systems, information…
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February 18, 2026 — Martina Linnenluecke and Carl Rhodes
Carl Rhodes is Professor of Business and Society at The University of Technology Sydney Business School. Carl researches the relationship between liberal…
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February 11, 2026 — Maxwell K. Riggsbee, Jr.
Maxwell K. Riggsbee, Jr., is a technologist currently specializing in developing machine learning systems around content serving US government policy-makers…
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February 4, 2026 — Real Talk
Earlier this week, Ben Collins, the owner of The Onion, was interviewed on Kara Swisher’s “On” podcast. The interview raised some core questions about the…
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January 28, 2026 — Interview with PJ Puterbaugh
PJ Puterbaugh’s skills exist at the intersection of art and science. Working as a painter and portraitist, years ago she found herself utilizing her abilities…
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January 21, 2026 — Interview with Skylar Hughes
Reading about Skylar Hughes is like reading about the early days of a superstar. A ballerina, a young academic powerhouse, and a community and psychological…
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January 14, 2026 — Make the Most of the Middle
“Disintermediation” was a hot buzzword during the early days of disruption thinking, but it never really occurred. Instead, the platform era ushered in new…
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January 7, 2026 — Interview with Rick Anderson
Rick Anderson, the University Librarian at Brigham Young University (BYU), joins us today. Rick serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards and is a…
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December 31, 2025 — Playing to the Consumer
To close out 2025, we’ve decided to focus on a few related topics — incentives, norms, rules, and the customer you choose. Scientific and scholarly publishing…
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December 17, 2025 — Scientific Publishing’s Double Bubble
For a variety of reasons we explore in the podcast, the OA bubble is not arriving in the AI era as something as all-encompassing or healthy as imagined — in…
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December 10, 2025 — Interview with Elizabeth Jacobs of "Defend Public Health"
Today, we’re talking with Elizabeth Jacobs, Professor Emerita in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Arizona. She retired in…
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December 3, 2025 — Altmetric: Are You OK?
This week, we dive into an unexpected topic — the rather bizarre Bluesky account run by Altmetric. Altmetric has made some changes lately, including podcasts…
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November 26, 2025 — Derek Lowe, "In the Pipeline," discovery science, and pie!
Derek Lowe is a medicinal chemist working on drug discovery. He’s been writing a renowned science blog called “In the Pipeline” since 2002. Lowe tackles a mix…
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November 19, 2025 — Interview with Roger McNamee — "Zucked," AI hype, and Moonalice
Today, we’re talking with Roger McNamee, an entrepreneur, author, musician, and investor with a legacy in Silicon Valley that stretches from his days heading…
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November 12, 2025 — Interview with Jeremy Berg — "Fifty Shades of Jay" and Much More!
Today, we’re talking with Jeremy Berg, a former editor of Science, former President of ASBMB, and former Director of the National Institute of General Medical…
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November 5, 2025 — Interview with Nick Evans About Preprints and Science Policy
Today, we’re talking with Nick Evans, who was in the Department of Philosophy in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of…
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October 29, 2025 — Interview with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, authors of “The AI Con”
Today, we’re talking with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, co-authors of the book The AI Con, which came out earlier this year. Emily is a Professor of Linguistics…
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October 22, 2025 — Interview with Mike Olson About Library Tech
Today, we’re talking with Mike Olson, Assistant Professor and Cataloging & Discovery Librarian at Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Mike…
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October 15, 2025 — Interview with Seth Leopold, MD, Editor of "CORR"
Today, we’re joined by Seth Leopold, an orthopaedic surgeon and Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, also known as CORR, a top…
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October 8, 2025 — Worship of Tech, Fear of Tylenol
Acetamiophen is one of the most studied analgesics in the world, and was the centerpiece of a famous product recall when a murderer laced capsules with…
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September 26, 2025 — Interview with Christine Laine, MD, Editor-in-Chief of the "Annals of Internal Medicine"
This week, in a special Friday episode, we are pleased to bring you an interview with Christine Laine, the Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Internal Medicine…
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September 24, 2025 — “Predatory Data” — Interview with Anita Chan
The author of the book, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future, Anita Chan is a Professor in the School of Information…
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September 17, 2025 — Are We Breaking Peer Review?
It's Peer Review Week — but what does that mean anymore? We examine the focus on AI in this year's event, dissect how the definition of "peer review" has…
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September 12, 2025 — Safeguarding Science from AI: An Interview with Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij
In this special episode, we speak with two authors of the position paper, "Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia," Olivia Guest and…
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September 11, 2025 — News Update: MDPI Pulls a MAHA Preprint
A July 2025 preprint on Preprints.org (MDPI) gets withdrawn, and the caterwauling about censorship begins. This episode helps you get your bearings, we hope…
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September 10, 2025 — What Is the Zuck Really Doing in Science?
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is widely reported as a philanthropy. In fact, it is an LLC operated by the holding company the family uses, sells assets…
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September 2, 2025 — Private Wealth NOT Public Health
In this episode, we dive deeper into the background of Jim O’Neill, the interim acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the…
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August 27, 2025 — Science ≠ Tech, Tech ≠ Science
Today, we dive into a few aspects of the imposition of tech thinking into the scientific endeavor, including business models, AI, accidental certifications…
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August 20, 2025 — Interview with Jason Steinhauer, Author of "History, Disrupted"
It's our first interview for the podcast, and we landed a great guest! Jason Steinhauer is a “public historian” working at the intersection of history, tech…
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August 13, 2025 — Looking Ahead
A brief episode to talk about where the podcast has been and exciting plans for where it is going next. Also, two great "Discoveries of the Week," and don't…
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August 6, 2025 — The Dumbest Ad Business
Paid OA has co-opted editors into paid placement collaborators within publishers. We talk about the implications of this, explore it as a cleaner thought…
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July 30, 2025 — The Coming AI Winter
In this episode, we talk about "gaslight" preprints, retractions, and then explore some of the signs that we may be approaching an "AI winter" due to high…
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July 23 — Sci Pub's Epstein Files, the Farm Report, and Discoveries of the Week
The USDA is quashing scientific research. Ozzy leaves us. And two discoveries of the week. Music stings provided by friend of the pod, Lucas, at Provoke the…
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July 16 — Sleuths and Dirty Laundry, Peer Review Congress Agenda, YLE Praising NIH Caps, AUP "Mass Resignation," Update on "Gaslight Journals," Rick Tackles CC, and Adam Becker's New Book
We tackle a host of topics and try new technology Sleuths and Dirty Laundry Peer Review Congress Agenda YLE Praising NIH Caps AUP "Mass Resignation" Update on…
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July 10 — MAHA and the NIH Disrupt Publishing
In this week's special episode, we cover some recent news (medical groups suing HHS, NSF grants icing out biomedicine, and sleuths being leveraged for…
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July 2, 2025 — A Terrible Week for Science
We summarize a terrible week for science, provide a book update, share some News of the Week, add a couple of justifiable rants, and provide two nice…
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June 25, 2025 — Substack, Ghost, and the New Gray Literature
Newsletters are reshaping science policy in new ways thanks to various technologies and business models. We explore. Also, our new "Rant of the Week" feature…