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Podcast Profile: The DISRUPTED SCIENCE Podcast

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49 episodes
2025 to 2026
Median: 53 minutes
Collection: Science

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This podcast examines how internet-era technologies and business models are reshaping science, scholarly communication, and public trust in scientific claims. Hosted by Kent Anderson and Joy Moore in connection with their book project on “how the internet disrupted science,” the conversations blend analysis of current events with discussions of incentives in publishing, governance and accountability, and the ways platforms and advertising-driven systems can distort what gets produced, promoted, and believed.

Across episodes, a recurring focus is the boundary between science and media: how attention economies, metrics, and platform logics influence research visibility and credibility, and how “trust markers” such as DOIs, peer review, journal brands, and evidence-based language can be imitated or exploited by predatory publishers, paper mills, and other opportunistic actors. The show also frequently engages with open access, preprints, editorial oversight, and debates over whether speed and scale are undermining quality control and reader-focused norms.

Artificial intelligence is another major theme, treated less as a neutral tool than as a set of power-laden products and incentives that may degrade information quality, shift labor, and create new forms of black-box intermediation in academia and medicine. Alongside this, the hosts discuss politicized attacks on public health and research institutions, science-policy turmoil, and the growth of misinformation ecosystems (including “gaslight” forms of pseudo-science) that can affect real-world decisions.

Interviews with editors, librarians, historians, technologists, and public health experts provide perspectives from across the research and media landscape, and many episodes close with lighter “discoveries of the week” items outside the main topic stream.