Coming Summer ’26
Can We Save Science?
How did we get from the high hopes for knowledge in the early days of the consumer web to an era where world leaders have been attacking and undermining science right before our eyes?
The answers involve Russian operatives, paper mills, “gaslight” journals, predatory publishers, cyberlibertarians, “sugar daddy” science, Big Tech oligarchs, AI slop, editorial bribery, bad ideas, Iranian hackers, trans-Atlantic conspiracy theorists, and more.
How the Internet Disrupted Science tells a sweeping and timely story you won’t get anywhere else.
“. . . a compelling account.”
— Christine Laine, MD, MPH, Editor in Chief, Annals of Internal Medicine
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About the Authors
Kent Anderson has worked in scholarly and scientific publishing for nearly thirty years, serving as Director of Journals at the American Academy of Pediatrics when the initial vaccine-autism link was forged in mass media; working as Publishing Director at the New England Journal of Medicine; serving as CEO of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery; and working as Publisher at AAAS/Science. He also founded two of the most influential blogs in scholarly publishing, the Webby-nominated Scholarly Kitchen and his current paid e-newsletter, the Geyser. Through these, he has kept a near-daily pulse on activities in the space since 2007. He lives and works as a consultant outside of Boston.
Joy Moore landed her first job out of college in a scientific journal editorial office in Chapel Hill, NC in 1995, in the days of fax, on the cusp of the internet. She quickly became a key player in the discovery and adoption of technology into the workflow to produce, disseminate, and monetize scholarly and medical products. She has worked for or with nearly every major global commercial publisher, scientific society, platform vendor, technology partner, and funding body in the space. Blackwell (later Wiley), Nature, Wolters Kluwer, McGraw-Hill, The American Medical Association, Silverchair, and EBSCO, to name a few. Her current home base is Williamsburg, Virginia.