Globe Pequot, August 2026
How the Internet
Disrupted Science
By Kent Anderson and Joy Moore — the Managing Directors behind Ad Fontes Science™. A rigorous investigation into how academic incentives, a tech-first mindset, naïve information theories, big money, and exploitable business models combined to disrupt the scientific claims market.
Learn more at DisruptedScience.com
About the Book
The science information market is broken. This explains why.
Science publishing has undergone a profound transformation over the past three decades — and not entirely for the better. The same forces that destabilized news, television, and social media have quietly reshaped how scientific claims are produced, disseminated, and trusted.
How the Internet Disrupted Science traces how perverse academic incentives, a naïve faith in open-access information theories, and the flood of big money into research created a publishing ecosystem riddled with exploitable business models — and what the consequences have been for public trust in science.
Drawing on decades of firsthand experience inside the most influential journals in medicine and science, Anderson and Moore offer both a diagnosis and a path forward.
Key Themes
Academic incentives gone wrong
How "publish or perish" culture, citation metrics, and impact factors created a system optimized for volume over rigor.
Tech-first, science-second
How a naive belief that open digital infrastructure would automatically improve science ignored the incentive structures underneath.
Big money in research
How commercial pressures from publishers, funders, and institutions distorted what gets published and how it gets covered.
Exploitable business models
How predatory journals, paper mills, and manipulable peer review processes became predictable consequences of a broken market.
A path forward
What meaningful quality signals look like — and why tools like the SIRC™ are part of the solution.
The Geyser
Where the ideas behind the book live
The Geyser is a subscription newsletter covering the disruption of scientific publishing — the ongoing conversation that grew alongside, and helped shape, this book. Subscribers receive selected excerpts, early insights, and commentary on the themes explored in How the Internet Disrupted Science.
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- Full Title
- How the Internet Disrupted Science
- Authors
- Kent Anderson & Joy Moore
- Publisher
- Globe Pequot
- ISBN
- 9781493094400
- Publication
- August 2026
- Contact
- disruptedscience@gmail.com
“This insightful work by Anderson and Moore . . . should be in every academic library and be required reading for anyone involved in the information field.”
From Diagnosis to Solution
The book led to the SIRC™
Researching and writing How the Internet Disrupted Science deepened Kent and Joy's conviction that the scientific information market needed more than a critique — it needed a practical, tangible tool. The Scientific Information Reliability Chart (SIRC™) is that tool: a rigorous, transparent, visual system for rating the reliability and relevance of scientific publications, built on the same firsthand understanding of how the market works and how it can be gamed.
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