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Podcast Profile: The DISRUPTED SCIENCE Podcast

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40 episodes
2025 to 2026
Median: 52 minutes
Collection: Science

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This podcast examines how internet-era incentives and technologies have reshaped science, with a particular focus on scientific claims, scholarly communication, and the publishing ecosystem around them. Hosted by Kent Anderson and Joy Moore in conjunction with their forthcoming book, it blends commentary on current events with interviews featuring editors, librarians, researchers, technologists, and critics of the tech industry.

Across the conversations, recurring themes include the effects of platform logics on knowledge production; the role of intermediaries such as editors, peer reviewers, libraries, and metrics providers; and the tension between accountability-based publishing models and speed-and-scale approaches associated with preprints, open access, and automated tools. The show frequently returns to questions of research integrity and quality control, including paper mills, predatory or pay-to-publish business models, and what the hosts describe as “gaslight” or intentionally misleading science. It also explores how altmetrics, impact measures, and attention-driven systems influence what gets amplified and rewarded.

A major throughline is skepticism toward inflated claims about AI in academia and publishing, including concerns about synthetic text, black-box intermediaries, and the mismatch between technological hype and the needs of discovery science. The podcast also situates these issues in broader political and cultural contexts, discussing misinformation and disinformation, public health controversies, and pressures on scientific institutions and funding. Interviews often connect day-to-day editorial or library work to larger debates about expertise, governance, and the ways power and capital shape what counts as credible knowledge.