Scott Carney Investigates

Today we're going to talk about some hard subjects--adultery, violence, power, and psychopathy. During the last few weeks I've been in touch with many amazing people from all around the internet who are trying to understand how deep the problems with Andrew Huberman really go. One of the people I met was the sex and relationship counselor Kate Balestreri and I'm so glad that we had some time to sit down together. Kate Balestrieri: https://www.threads.net/@drkatebalestrieri Modern Intimacy: https://www.modernintimacy.com Support this show on Patreon and get exclusive EARLY ACCESS and access to a private discord server: Read my Substack Newsletter Scott Carney Investigates Podcast Books: ⁠The Wedge⁠ ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠ ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠ The Vortex The Red Market Social Media: YouTube Instagram Facebook Twitter Bluesky ©PokeyBear LLC (2023)

The science of ice bathing has been evolving a lot in the last few years. Brad Schoenfeld is a PhD in physiology and hypertrophy (literally building muscle) who just completed a metastudy analysis that showed that ice bathing after working out could kill the muscle gains. Read more on his blog post about it here: https://www.lookgreatnaked.com/blog/ #exercise #fitness #coldexposure #icebath Support this show on Patreon and get exclusive EARLY ACCESS and access to a private discord server: Read my Substack Newsletter Scott Carney Investigates Podcast Books: ⁠The Wedge⁠ ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠ ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠ The Vortex The Red Market Social Media: YouTube Instagram Facebook Twitter Bluesky ©PokeyBear LLC (2023)

So maybe you don't care about what happens in Andrew Huberman's personal life. So long as his science checks out, what's the harm? Well, I hate to break it to you but his science doesn't really check out either. From cherry-picked results to quack "protocols" Huberman frequently overextends his knowledge and starts shilling pseudoscience. This week on the show I talk to the immunologist Dr. Andrea Love to set the record straight. You can find out more about Dr. Love at her website: Website: https://www.immunologic.org/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@dr.andrealove Support this show on Patreon and get exclusive EARLY ACCESS and access to a private discord server: Read my Substack Newsletter Scott Carney Investigates Podcast Books: ⁠The Wedge⁠ ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠ ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠ The Vortex The Red Market Social Media: YouTube Instagram Facebook Twitter Bluesky ©PokeyBear LLC (2023)

At its height, the bone factories in Calcutta exported more than 60,000 anatomical skeletons a year to medical programs all over the world. Most of the bones had been looted from graves and burning ghats. Still, anatomy processors made millions of dollars stealing and then exporting those bodies abroad. Today, those hundreds of tons of human remains are in closets and specimine collections all around American and Europe...and now we need to decide what to do with them. Today my guest is Sabrina Agarwal a professor and the chair of the department of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley who specializes in bioarchaeology. She just wrote an article in Nature digging into the ethical dilemma we all face when thinking about how to deal with the legacy of the skeleton trade. "The bioethics of skeletal anatomy collections from India" in Nature Support this show on Patreon and get exclusive EARLY ACCESS and access to a private discord server: Read my Substack Newsletter Scott Carney Investigates Podcast Books: ⁠The Wedge⁠ ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠ ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠ The Vortex The Red Market Social Media: YouTube Instagram Facebook Twitter Bluesky ©PokeyBear LLC (2023)

How many scientific papers are rotten with fake data? It turns out a lot more than you might think. Even some of the most well-respected medical institutions in the world have been caught out making things up in what should have been life-saving cancer research. Citizen sleuth, David Sholto came on the show today to talk about his role in unmasking more than 2000 papers that are either full of mistakes, or are outright frauds. Tune in to this riveting show to see how he uses artificial intelligence and good-old-fashioned reasoning to hold billion dollar pharmaceutical enterprises to task.

Why did the US Government give $500 billion to Nigerian hackers? What is Pig butchering? How will artificial intelligence change the the way hackers operate? What is the future of cyber warfare? These are all true stories from the dark side of the internet. Today I had the opportunity to talk with Jack Rhysider--the amazing host of the podcast Darknet Diaries ( @darknetdiaries7259 ). This conversation will change the way you think about you own privacy on the internet. Support this show on Patreon and get exclusive EARLY ACCESS and access to a private discord server: Read my Substack Newsletter Scott Carney Investigates Podcast Books: ⁠The Wedge⁠ ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠ ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠ The Vortex The Red Market Social Media: YouTube Instagram Facebook Twitter Bluesky ©PokeyBear LLC (2023)

This week the author and hose of the Conspirituality podcast, Derek Beres joins me to talk about the strange axis between spirituality, wellness and conspiracy theories that have taken over the internet. We don't pull any punches in this conversation, touching on the rise of anti-vaccine conspiracies, lizard people, coffee enemas, and how the neuroscientist Andrew Huberman has seemed to shuck off the aura of respectability and turned into a full-throated pseudoscientist. Conspirituality Webpage: https://www.conspirituality.net/ Podcast: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conspirituality/id1515827446 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2imIsM2NZRPpQvI56TLdM5 Book:https://amzn.to/48rQWKy Derek Beres on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@derekberes Support this show on Patreon and get exclusive EARLY ACCESS and access to a private discord server: Read my Substack Newsletter Scott Carney Investigates Podcast Books: ⁠The Wedge⁠ ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠ ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠ The Vortex The Red Market Social Media: YouTube Instagram Facebook Twitter Bluesky ©PokeyBear LLC (2023)

Have you ever woken up while you were dreaming, only to find that you couldn't move a muscle? Or, perhaps even more terrifying: have you woken up and felt a deep weight on your chest and sensed that an evil creature was pushing down on your chest? That, my friend, is the night hag--another name for sleep paralysis. I recently had a chance to chat with Kate Kavanaugh @katekavanaughmbs --a world famous butcher and host of the Mind, Body, Soil Podcast about the strange things that happen when we close our eyes at night. I've known Kate from a few interviews that we've done together over the years, and this is a re-broadcast of her show on my channel. So when you're done checking it out, go on over and subscribe to her amazing feed and find her other amazing conversations. Kate KAvanaugh's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCQplPRm_Z0bEWdqfWtMGaQw Mind Body Soil Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mind-body-and-soil/id1615122217 Kate Kavanaugh on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate_kavanaugh Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3PyxGKt94kLzVqkkjEgRFw/join Get Exclusive Updates on Patreon: https://patreon.com/sgcarney Substack https://sgcarney.substack.com/

In 2011 the journalist Michael Scott Moore was on assignment in Somalia on an assignment to document the spread of piracy in the Gulf of Aden. Just before he took a flight home, gunman stopped his car and forced him to get out. This was the beginning of 977 days in captivity. I had the opportunity to speak with Moore before he left for Somalia on his initial trip, and once he was freed. This is a recording of our conversation. #somalia #piracy #hostage #journalism The Desert and the Sea: Moore's Website : Get Exclusive Updates on Patreon: My weekly newsletter on Substack

When Willoughby Britton set out to study the potential negative side effects of meditation she never expected that the community would want to hound her out of her job. But that's what happened after her study on the "Varieties of Contemplative Experience" came out and she documented how one out of every ten people who start meditating have a clinically significant negative side effects. Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab Cheetah House Support this show on Patreon and get exclusive EARLY ACCESS and access to a private discord server: Read my Substack Newsletter Scott Carney Investigates Podcast Books: ⁠The Wedge⁠ ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠ ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠ The Vortex The Red Market Social Media: YouTube Instagram Facebook Twitter Bluesky ©PokeyBear LLC (2023)

Bigger storms, receding coastlines, and unlivable heat: climate change is coming and sometimes it feels like there's nothing we can do to stop it. This week I talk with Stephen Miller who has combed the history of humankind's attempts to control nature. He has some ideas about what adaptation will look like and how big tech projects have faired over generations. Read his new book: Over the Sea Wall. More about Stephen Miller. Support this show on Patreon and get exclusive EARLY ACCESS and access to a private discord server: Subscribe to my newsletter Scott Carney Investigates Podcast Books: ⁠The Wedge⁠ ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠ ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠ The Vortex The Red Market Social Media: YouTube Instagram Facebook Twitter Bluesky ©PokeyBear LLC (2023)

Most people seem to age in a predictable direction, but Eric Hinman seems to be an exception. In this video I dive deep into how Eric quit his corporate job selling life insurance and decided to dedicate himself full time to health and happiness. In this podcast he gives us his tips on what it means to be fit in your 40's, how to make friends at any age and how much money a person can make on social media.

This week I spoke to Casey Fiesler, a tech ethicist, professor and rather famous TikTokker about the parallel universe of copyright litigation, fair use arguments, revenge pornography and so much more. Find more out about Fiesler's academic work here: Website | YouTube TikTok

I'd never heard about Dahn Yoga until Chris Flanders reached out to me. When I started digging in I learned how seriously dangerous this organization really is. Support this show on Patreon and get exclusive EARLY ACCESS and access to a private discord server: Subscribe to my newsletter Scott Carney Investigates Podcast Books: ⁠The Wedge⁠ ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠ ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠ The Vortex The Red Market Social Media: YouTube Instagram Facebook Twitter Bluesky ©PokeyBear LLC (2023)

This is the full and unedited interview with Dan Ariely where we talk about the fraud allegations against him, the meaning of truth and so much more. Make up your own mind about what happened. Get Dan's new Book "Misbelief" here: https://amzn.to/3ZXxoLw #danariely #fraud #science

The one question that Emergency Room Doctors get more than any other is "what sorts of objects have you pilled out of people's rectums." I've known Dr. Rob Orman for several years now and he has stories galore: from the proper technique to remove rectal foreign bodies without damaging his patients, to how to keep up his bedside manner when operating on a known criminal with a horrible record. You don't want to miss this show. Listen to Rob Orman's Stimulus Podcast: https://roborman.com/stimulus-podcast/

Before I interviewed a well-known hitman in Bangalore in 2008 I told my editor at WIRED that if I didn't report back in 12 hours that he needed to call a cop that was known to shoot first and ask questions later because I was already probably dead. This story is not only about the risks that reporters take in the field, but how the changing distribution of journalism is going to fundamentally alter the types of stories that you hear.#mafia #MarhsallMcluhan #media

The largest and most successful empire in history wasn't Rome: it was the Mongols. This week I interview Jack Weatherford the New York Times bestselling author of "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" about what made the Mongolian Empire so successful. . . and what is REALLY hidden in Genghis Khan's grave. Support this show on Patreon and get exclusive EARLY ACCESS and access to a private discord server: Subscribe to my newsletter Scott Carney Investigates Podcast Books: ⁠The Wedge⁠ ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠ ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠ The Vortex The Red Market Social Media: YouTube Instagram Facebook Twitter Bluesky ©PokeyBear LLC (2023)

The filmmaker Vikram Gandhi wanted to expose the fake spirituality of the American wellness movement by impersonating the Hindu priests he grew up around. He invented a fake yoga, intoned Sanskrit chants that were translated from the marketing materials of Nike Sneakers, the US Army and G.I. Joe and told people to trust their intuition. What he didn't expect was that some of his followers started to believe that he really WAS god. #guru #cult #breathwork Watch Kumaré on Amazon: Support this show on Patreon and get exclusive EARLY ACCESS and access to a private discord server: Subscribe to my newsletter Scott Carney Investigates Podcast Books: ⁠The Wedge⁠ ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠ ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠ The Vortex The Red Market Social Media: YouTube Instagram Facebook Twitter Bluesky ©PokeyBear LLC (2023)

How do we reconcile the fact that lying is an incredibly effective strategy with our shared desire for truth? In the natural world all sort of creatures lie about how dangerous they are in order to survive. The Allied command lied in WW2 to confuse the Nazis before D-day, and most of us would say that the lying was justified. But lying also erodes the social fabric in general. Support this show on Patreon and get exclusive EARLY ACCESS and access to a private discord server: Subscribe to my newsletter Scott Carney Investigates Podcast Books: ⁠The Wedge⁠ ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠ ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠ The Vortex The Red Market Social Media: YouTube Instagram Facebook Twitter Bluesky ©PokeyBear LLC (2023)