How the Internet Disrupted Science: Kent Anderson & Joy Moore

Join us on April 17 at noon (PST) as we welcome special guests Kent Anderson and Joy Moore to discuss their book How the Internet Disrupted Science.

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.​Science is in trouble. A growing number of actors have developed selfish, misleading, or criminal ways to exploit it, dumping nonsense into our information streams and eroding trust, justifying their actions with Big Tech tools and tech-adjacent thinking that more information is better. Anti-science forces have been working to delegitimize science. Silicon Valley politics have corrupted it. Even the speed of digital communication is problematic. Concepts behind AI carry risks of centralized power controlling a more impenetrable “truth.” 

​How the Internet Disrupted Science tells the story of what went wrong.

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 Kitchenand 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.