Is science—as I once believed—pure and undefiled? A noble search for truth, guided only by evidence and the open sharing of discovery? Or has it become something else entirely—an instrument of power cloaked in the language of objectivity? In this episode, we’ll trace how a penniless immigrant, newly armed with ties to British intelligence, quietly captured a vast share of the world’s scientific publishing system. Under the banner of “better science,” he built a new apparatus of co...
