The DISRUPTED SCIENCE Podcast
by Caldera Information Solutions LLC
Latest episode
October 21, 2026 — Going Back to School
October 21, 2026 — Going Back to School
About this podcast
From the authors of the forthcoming book ”How the Internet Disrupted Science” comes this view of science and society from where the action is — the scientific claims and publishing space. Hosted by Kent Anderson and Joy Moore, listeners receive analyses of current events, updates about the book, and opinions on various topics of interest. Book pre-sales available now. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-the-Internet-Disrupted-Science/Kent-Anderson/9781493094400
Episodes
The newest 20 of 62 episodes
- October 21, 2026 — Going Back to School · 42 min · Season 2We’re back in learning mode. It’s a lot of fun and really interesting. To start, we’ve been learning a lot since our book was published, mainly how the topics resonate broadly…
- October 7, 2026 — Leave arXiv Alone · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 34arXiv was the first major preprint server, a practical Internet solution for a community seeking to exchange findings in areas like high-energy physics, particle physics, and…
- September 30, 2026 — Flushing Out the Fabulists · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 27The history of science and tech is at some level a history of fabulists — people who imbued new technologies with magical powers of one sort or another, and others who dethroned…
- September 16, 2026 — Negligent Experiments: The Old Normal · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 26Various ideologies have captured the handful of leaders atop the major AI firms currently calling for a slowdown in development — effective altruism, long-termism…
- September 9, 2026 — A Lack of Consumer Protection · 1 h 4 min · Season 2 Episode 26A recent press release from Springer Nature — gussied up to pretend it was a “white paper” representing “findings” and pushed right out through Research Information, where press…
- August 26, 2026 — Starting Your Journal’s Digital Detox · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 25We have a chapter in our book (“Trapped in the Tech Shrine”) about how scientific publishers became habituated to taking publishing and business advice from technology vendors…
- August 19, 2026 — Scientific Publishing’s Fauci Reckoning · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 22Today, we want to talk about Anthony Fauci, and our role in making life difficult for him — and, beyond his current travails, for society at large. In 2021, healthcare expert…
- August 7, 2026 — Interview with Colette Delawalla · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 21Colette Delawalla is the Founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science (SUFS), an organization that has been at the heart of our national — and now international — defense of…
- August 5, 2006 — Shopify Your Pseudoscience · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 20OA publishing and social media gave pseudoscience information a business model, but how do those people actually sell and fulfill products? The media keep missing this story…
- July 29, 2026 — Tales From the Bookstores · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 18We’re back from our first signings, and we have a few stories to share. The signings occurred prior to the book’s official publication date, creating some extra interest but also…
- July 8, 2026 — Eugenics: Our Interview with Anita Chan Revisited · 1 h 23 min · Season 2 Episode 17In 2025, Anita Say Chan’s book, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future, was published by the University of California Press. This led to a…
- July 1, 2026 — Book Time Approacheth · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 16We’re finally in the long-awaited tunnel to people buying and reading our book. It seems like forever, yet the book also strikes us as more relevant than ever. As with most…
- June 18, 2026 — Let’s Talk Impact Factor · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 18Quantification as proxy for qualification of scientific and academic publications has been around for a very long time. Today, we touch a little on the history of bibliometrics…
- May 27, 2026 — Relevance Check · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 16We turned the manuscript for our book in almost a year ago now, but we were working feverishly on it around this time given that MAHA was busy undermining vaccine science even…
- May 13, 2026 — The Podcast Pivot · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 14We’ve been doing our podcast for nearly a full year, starting right as we were putting our pencils down from writing the book. We didn’t know quite what to expect, but we were…
- April 29, 2026 — Eric Topol’s Misdiagnosis · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 15Today we take a deep dive into a fake paper involving Eric Topol, one of the most prominent names in what we have to call “mainstream medicine” today. We’re going to offer our…
- April 15, 2026 — The Authors’ Interview · 1 h 8 min · Season 2 Episode 14This week, guest host Michael Magoulias takes the reins to conduct a lighthearted interview of your intrepid authors, partly to take the sting out of this being tax day in the…
- April 8, 2026 — Interview: Susan Wise Bauer · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 13Susan Wise Bauer is a historian and author of The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy. I reviewed her book a few weeks ago, and Joy…
- April 1, 2026 — Science Is Not Media · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 12Technology and media have become entangled and confused, so much so that the free speech of “no, thanks, not for us” is now called “censorship” and discussing public officials or…
- March 25, 2026 — Interview with Amanda Licastro · 58 min · Season 2 Episode 11Today, we’re joined by Amanda Licastro, Head of Digital Scholarship Strategies and Visiting Associate Professor in English at Swarthmore College. Amanda recently participated in…
