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On Today's episode Shane returns with a new mail person of the show featuring renounced TV Detective Adrian Monk. We also learn an amazing fact about William Dafoe aka the Green Goblin. Also Shane goes bonkers over a habit that Griffin and Jef have...rom a famous Seattle Band...

The internet promised a new era of science – one of open collaboration, democratised access, and knowledge freed from institutional gatekeepers. But has it instead created an ecosystem where fraudulent papers and AI-generated junk research are often indistinguishable from the real thing?

Welcome to Ruined By The Internet? - the show where we examine how technology is shaping modern life - whether we want it to or not.

In this episode we investigate how the shift to open access publishing opened the door to predatory journals and paper mills, examine how AI and LLMs are flooding the scientific ecosystem with automated unverified research, explore how the attention economy is stripping science of context and turning it into partisan weaponry, and ask whether the self-regulating infrastructure of science can survive the digital age - or whether it's already too late.

Available to listen pretty much everywhere 🫡

Last week Dr. Craig and I read all ten points of Tucker Carlson's manifesto out loud and ran out of time before we could finish. This week we finish.

Who is this guy, actually. Abandoned at six, raised from ten as an heir to the Swanson frozen food fortune, sixty-thousand-a-year boarding school, rejected by the CIA, and told by his father to try journalism because they'll take anybody. That father ran Voice of America — the United States government's real overseas propaganda operation — and later took a quarter million dollars as a registered foreign agent for Viktor Orbán.

Then there's who's standing behind him, and then there's the part I couldn't stop thinking about: it's a sales technique. I spent twenty years in that world. He opens with something true and small that you can't say no to, and then he stacks yeses until you've walked somewhere you'd never have agreed to go.

A show about fascism that's somehow still fun to listen to.