Peter Kevan has spent fifty years studying pollination. Now, he's worried about something else: whether we can still trust the machinery that produces scientific knowledge. As an author, reviewer and editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Bee Science, he's watched scholarly publishing change from a service to a commercial business, while AI has introduced a new and unsettling problem of some false information slipping into the scientific record. We talked about publishing, AI, research funding, and why public trust in science may become harder to sustain.
