“How the Internet Disrupted Science”
Coming in Spring 2026, How the Internet Disrupted Science will explore the effects of the politics, business practices, philosophical leanings, and cultural assumptions imported from Silicon Valley over the past few decades into the scientific claims space, and their effects on trust, truth, and reliability.
Drawn from years of coverage, first-hand accounts, and a wide-ranging view of related investigations and contemplations, the book connects the dots to provide a meaningful picture of the root causes afflicting the scientific information space, while also showing a way forward.
About the Authors
- 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.
- Kent Anderson has worked in scholarly and scientific publishing for nearly 30 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 has run a tech start-up, and consulted with dozens of organizations. 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.
About the Publisher
Prometheus Books — an imprint of Globe Pequot — was founded in 1969 by the late philosopher Paul Kurtz. The company is committed to testing the boundaries of established thought and providing readers with thoughtful and authoritative books in a wide variety of categories. Publishing intelligent nonfiction for the thoughtful lay reader, Prometheus Books has focused on several core categories including popular science, critical thinking, philosophy, history, atheism, humanism, current events, psychology, and true crime. Headquartered in Amherst, NY, their books have been translated into more than 50 languages.
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