Reviews
“Read this book!”
“Exceptional. . . . Wonderful. Read this book!”
—Derek Beres, Conspirituality
“Required reading.”
“This insightful work by Anderson and Moore . . . should be in every academic library and be required reading for anyone involved in the information field.”
— Library Journal
“This book is a serious wake-up call.”
“This is a must-read book for all in the information business. . . . Science has been lost in the gospel of technology. At risk is the public trust in not just science but all learning and higher education. This book is a serious wake-up call.”
— Katina Strauch
Founder, Charleston Conference, Against the Grain, Katina
“This book astounded me . . .”
“This book astounded me. It reveals the ugly truths about the exploitation of scientific publishing by tech-bros and tricksters, and how the idea of greater access to scientific papers crashed head-on into profit through deception. An eye-opening must read.”
— Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD, Founder, Defend Public Health
“. . . arrives at a pivotal moment . . .”
“. . . the book arrives at a pivotal moment for scientific publishing. Its arguments are likely to provoke discussions among publishers, funders, librarians, and researchers alike, making it an interesting read for anyone following current debates in scholarly communication.”
— Science
“I hope the scientific community embraces [their] suggestions.”
“Kent Anderson and Joy Moore provide a compelling account of how the internet, digital publishing, social media, open access, and other ‘advances’ are conspiring to threaten not only the communication of science, but science itself. They harness their substantial experience to suggest actions to help remedy the mess. I hope the scientific community embraces those suggestions.”
— Christine Laine, MD, MPH
Editor in Chief, Annals of Internal Medicine
“. . . engaging, enraging, and opinionated . . .”
“The interplay between technology and scientific communication is easily overlooked, and massive changes have taken place over my career. Anderson and Moore’s book explores many topics — from ‘open access’ publishing with its ‘democratizing’ marketing through its abusive business models, to LLMs and the emerging struggles to harness good from AI without accepting all the potential harms. Their book is engaging, enraging, and opinionated.”
— Jeremy M. Berg, PhD
Professor of Computational and Systems Biology
Former Editor-in-Chief, Science
“This is a loud book.”
“This is a loud book. Confident, footnoted, polished, pedigreed.
Reflective of the verification struggle that science is facing right now.”
— Dustin Smith, Co-founder and CEO, Hum
“The journey is a frightening one . . .”
“How the Internet Disrupted Science demonstrates that what started as an effort to provide digital access to scientific journals with rigorous editorial and peer-review has devolved into a playground of advertisements disguised as papers. The journey is a frightening one, but things can be rectified in ways suggested by the authors. A bracing read.”
— Martin Frank, PhD
Executive Director, American Physiological Society (retired)