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Disrupted Science
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Follow before the book “How the Internet Disrupted Science” is published in early 2026. We have a lot to say.
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · Aug 26
Check it out, and keep following us here to get a sense of what we're on about. www.the-geyser.com/disrupted-sc...
Disrupted Science — the Book
After years covering the disruption of scientific publishing, the time has come
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 1d
This week, we interview the editor of a top orthopaedic journal to discuss why those won't allow preprints, how they're struggling against AI, and what editors really do.
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Interview: Seth Leopold, MD
This week’s podcast interview is with another editor of a top specialty journal
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 2d
The transgressives are in the house at @alpsp.bsky.social — which is really bad news.
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ALPSP Gets It All Wrong
An upcoming webinar privileges the wrong players for the Association itself
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 3d
Once again, a sketchy OA study and a preprint are used as part of "gaslight" science — this time, men have skin in the Tylenol-autism debate.
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Then, They Came for Our . . .
MAHA’s manosphere targeted via more shoddy OA and preprint evidence
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 6d
Sometimes, the music says it all in this weekly feature.
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Song: “Superstition”
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s legendary cover of this Stevie Wonder classic simply soars
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 7d
What were we texting about this past week? Here are some insights. www.the-geyser.com/this-weeks-t...
This Week’s Texting Discoveries
We are constantly sharing relevant stuff we find — here’s this week’s fetch
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 8d
Our latest episode discusses a double standard between tech and science.

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Pod: “Worship of Tech, Fear of Tylenol”
When a product poses a danger, why is there a double-standard?
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 9d
Our letter in the @chronicle.com has been published.
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Letter | What Open Access Advocates Get Wrong
An all-information-is-free utopia is unrealistic, write Kent Anderson and Joy Moore.
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 10d
Hey, @davidfrum.bsky.social, you might want to check out our book based on this episode:
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The David Frum Show
News Commentary Podcast · Updated Weekly · To defend democracy, one has to believe in it. To believe in democracy, one has to understand it. Where it came from. How it works. What’s true. What’s not. ...
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 10d
Pseudoscience makes for good, predictable businesses.

Real science does not.
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 10d
Exploit workers to create bad AI, bad papers, and then push the laundromat using AI to traffick the bad papers to market.

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From AI Gig Work to Fake Papers
Exploiting educated but impoverished people is a shared trait of AI and OA
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 11d
Reading "The Empire of AI." He seems like a con artist of renown, and perfectly happy to exploit others as he goes. "Clammy Sammy" is a perfect sobriquet.
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 11d
This story suggests MAHA people believe Tylenol is a gullibility suppressant — so no wonder they want it off the shelves!
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‘Crunchy Moms’ Have Stayed Away from Tylenol for Years
For some in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, the Tylenol conversation has been years in the making.
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 11d
The anti-Tylenol grift is older and more well-established than we knew.
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 12d
Autism prevalence changes explained. Excellent talk.
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The rise of Autism Spectrum Disorder(s) and ADHD and re-assessments - Professor Sebastian Lundström
YouTube video by CEBM Oxford
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 13d
Comedians like @julienolke.bsky.social are great right now.
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I’m pregnant, do I take Tylenol?!
YouTube video by Julie Nolke
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 13d
Every time we turn around, there's more to distrust around the Editor of @jaccjournals.bsky.social and his role at @openrxiv.bsky.social . . .
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The “Impossible” Preprints
The winner of the Nobel Prize for mRNA vaccines finds more flaws for Krumholz
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 13d
@iansample.bsky.social We should talk.
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“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 ov...
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 13d
Nice to see @iansample.bsky.social and @hansonmark.bsky.social discussing these problems. @theguardian.com gets to some of the core issues. It's almost as if two experts should write a book about this, with even more insights and proposed solutions. 🤔
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Fraud, AI slop and huge profits: is science publishing broken? – podcast
Scientists warn academic publishing needs reform in order to retain trust in research system. Ian Sample talks to Madeleine Finlay and Dr Mark Hanson proposes potential solutions
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 14d
@derekberes.bsky.social and @this-is-mallory.bsky.social do a great job dissecting the Tylenol grift, but it started with a broken journals system catering to the attention economy.
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Natural Tylenol
Brought to you by Springer Nature, and amplified by MAHA grifters everywhere
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 14d
Our latest rundown, and our new t-shirt to show where you stand relative to an anti-science personality.
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This Week’s Texting Discoveries
We are constantly sharing relevant stuff we find — here’s this week’s fetch
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 15d
MAHA churns out nonsense studies when its narrative falters in the face of actual science.

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MAHA Looks Out for Its Own
Just throw a “gaslight study” out there when needed to protect the narrative . . .
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 16d
AI is not like a musical instrument you learn to play. Musical instruments are tuned to standards, with interfaces with a straight line between input and output. AI systems are NOT ANY OF THESE THINGS!

Hey, @jaccjournals.bsky.social your EIC is a techno-utopian clown.
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Tools, Not Ghosts: Artificial Intelligence, Writing, and Responsibility
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 16d
@nature.com pulls a rookie move of its own by covering a preprint with superficial, stereotypical clickbait premises.
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“Beginner’s Luck” in Science?
Nature’s coverage of a preprint about “rookie researchers” is itself a rookie move
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 19d
Did RFK, Jr., call the editor of the "Annals of Internal Medicine" to push for a retraction of a vaccine study? Or sic his minions on the journal? Find out in our interview, out today.
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Interview with Christine Laine
The EIC of "Annals of Internal Medicine" discusses current events and more
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 20d
Our interview with Christine Laine, Editor-in-Chief of @annalsofim.bsky.social where we namecheck @drandrealove.bsky.social discussing new insights about "the Tylenol paper," the importance of careful science claims, RFK Jr., AI in clinical medicine, and more.
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Interview with Christine Laine
The EIC of "Annals of Internal Medicine" discusses current events and more
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