How the Internet Disrupted Science

by Mike Hunter

Scientific evidence affects policies, business, health outcomes, and economies worldwide. But is this stated scientific claim reliable? Or nonsense? More and more often, it’s unreliable. The global system managing scientific claims has been hacked by bad ideas, big money and bad incentives, and is being flooded by sketchy papers.

How the Internet Disrupted Science reveals the untold story of how science has been corrupted by digital information, academic and professional incentives, strange political ideologies and big money interests. In this explosive expose, Kent Anderson and Joy Moore uncover how notions from the Big Tech world such as “move fast and break things” and “information wants to be free” have corrupted a scientific endeavor that once prided itself on truth-seeking, accountability and transparency. Soon after that, scientific publishers were abdicating their responsibilities to practitioners and the public, while organized crime rings and conspiracy theorists took over.