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Podcast Profile: The DISRUPTED SCIENCE Podcast

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

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This podcast examines how the internet era has reshaped science, with a particular focus on scholarly communication, publishing, and the incentives that govern what gets produced, distributed, and trusted. Hosted by Kent Anderson and Joy Moore, it blends commentary on current events with interviews featuring editors, librarians, researchers, technologists, authors, and policy-adjacent experts to explore how research quality and public understanding are affected by platform dynamics.

Across the episodes, recurring attention is given to how open access and pay-to-publish models can distort behavior, enable paper mills and fraudulent output, and shift journals away from reader needs. The show also spends substantial time on the role of AI in academic and medical contexts—covering hype cycles, the risks of synthetic or low-quality text at scale, new forms of “black box” intermediation, and how AI products may exploit trust markers like peer review, brands, and “evidence” while serving advertising or platform-growth goals.

Another major theme is governance: how billionaires, foundations, and tech-linked funders influence priorities in science and publishing, and how political movements, disinformation networks, and “grifter science” can leverage preprints, alternative media, and weakened gatekeeping to shape policy—especially in public health. The podcast repeatedly returns to questions of expertise, editorial accountability, metrics, and the purpose of intermediaries, contrasting professional curation and institutional norms with the incentives of attention markets and deregulated platforms. Alongside these discussions, the hosts include lighter “discoveries of the week,” but the core remains an analysis of trust, integrity, and power in modern science communication.