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Scott Carney Investigates
Investigative journalist Scott Carney explores true crime, cult psychology, biohacking, fitness revolutions, climate change calamities, organ trafficking and a whole lot more. Get exclusive access and bonus material at Patreon https://patreon.com/sgcarney ©PokeyBear LLC 2023-
Episodes
- Scott Carney Investigates
43. What's Wrong with Huberman's Science? | ft Dr. Andrea Love
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…
- Scott Carney Investigates
42. The Skeleton Business's Murderous Legacy
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…
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41. How Sholto David took on a $1.7 Billion Pharma Behemoth
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…
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40. Why did the USA pay $500 Billion to Nigerian Hackers? | ft. Jack Rhysider of Darknet Diaries
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?…
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39. Gurus, Gatekeepers, and the Conspirituality Wellness Cult with Derek Beres of the Conspirituality Podcast
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…
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38. The Night Hag: Sleep Paralysis in the Age of Insomnia
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…
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37. Captured by Pirates
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…
Scott Carney Investigates36. The Neuroscientist Who Dared to tell the truth about Meditation
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…
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35. Can Technology Save us from Climate Change?
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…
Scott Carney Investigates34. How Eric Hinman Went from Schlubby at 27 to Shredded at 43
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…
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33. Dr. Casey Fiesler, and the Monkey Selfie that Shook the World
This week I spoke to Casey Fiesler, a tech ethicist, professor and rather famous TikTokker about the parallel universe of copyright litigation, fair use…
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32. The Cult that Demands Two Slaves a Month
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…
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31. Is Dan Ariely a Scientific Fraudster, or just misunderstood? The Exclusive Interview.
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…
Scott Carney Investigates30. Shocking Stories from the Emergency Room: A conversation with Dr. Rob Orman and the strange things he's removed from people's backsides.
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…
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29. The Story that almost Killed Me | How Organized Crime taught me about the Future of Mainstream Media
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…
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28. The Secret History of the Mongols
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…
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27. How a Fake Guru founded a Real Cult | An Interview with the Filmmaker VIkram
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…
Scott Carney Investigates26. Why Liars Win
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…
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25. The Death of Expertise with Jamie Carlin Watson
What is an expert? For that matter, why don't we trust them? In this week's episiode I interview Jamie Carlin Watson, a bioethicist and professor with a whole…
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24. How Doctors Think: From Medical Barbarism to Artificial Intelligence with Adam Rodman M.D.
How does the barbaric history of medicine shed light on the future of artificial intelligence? How will computers transform the way doctors think? Will…
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23. I am Become Death: Oppenheimer and the Kali Yuga
The father of the first atom bomb quoted an ancient Hindu scripture when he saw the mushroom cloud exploding over the New Mexico desert. His immortal quote "I…
Scott Carney Investigates22. How to Start a Cult
In 2004 I was invited to join in sexual union with a room full of beautiful people in robes at the Osho compound in Pune. When I arrived there a few days…
Scott Carney Investigates21. Awe and Self-Transformation
Do psychedelics actually make you a better person, or do they just make you feel like you're a better person. In this show I begin with the notion that…
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20. Exorcism, EXvangelicalism and Private Jets: How Josiah Hesse Came to Reject Jesus and Stop Worrying about the Rapture
Josiah Hesse memorized his bible, let the Holy Ghost into his heart, and tithed 10% of everything to his evangelical church. It was only later when he realized…
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19. Darkness and Deep Time: An interview with Clark Strand
Electric illumination changed humanity's relationship with darkness. Clark Strand, author of Waking Up to The Dark wants us to reclaim lost human states of…
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18. Fame is a Mental Illness
What is it about being famous that turns people into shadows of their former-selves? And what does that mean for the rest of us who seek micro-levels of fame…
Scott Carney Investigates17. The Future of Legal Psychedelics
Joshua Kappel helped lead the effort to legalize psychadelic drugs in Colorado, and what happened here might be a model for what happens in the rest of the…
Scott Carney Investigates16. How Not to Die From Breathwork: A conversation with Patrick McKeown
This week I talk with Patrick Mckeown, the best selling author of The Oxygen Advantage and The Breathing Cure about looming problems in the broader breathwork…
Scott Carney Investigates15. The Rise and Fall of the Wim Hof Empire
Thirteen deaths; a $67 million lawsuit; lies, cover-ups and a near-fatal enema. After being Wim Hof's most public proponent and doing his method for ten years…
Scott Carney Investigates14. Our Simulated Universe
What does it mean to live in a simulation? Is it a simulated universe that lives on the silicone chips of an alien computer (or a future computer invented by…
Scott Carney Investigates13. Divine Mathematics
Probabilistic math makes the same assumption that shamans, Catholics, Mormons, Hindus and every other faith all make--that there's a fundamental force in the…
Scott Carney Investigates12. The Real Hero of the Alamo: Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna is the most important person in the history of North America that you probably know nothing about. If you have any impression at…
Scott Carney Investigates11. The Monk who F*cked Everything: a Brief History of Print Capital from the Tibetan plateau to Modern America
This is the story of the convoluted path that Buddhism took form India Tibet, and Tibet into your yoga studio at home. Get exclusive EARLY ACCESS on Patreon…
Scott Carney Investigates10. Forget Brown Fat. Forget Wim Hof. Neuroscientist Otto Muzik redefines the secrets of the placebo effect
Otto Muzik is best known to me for his research papers on Wim Hof's abilities that connected the iceman's abilities to the mysterious power of the placebo…
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9. DNA is not a Blueprint
The language that we use to discuss the role that DNA has in creating the proteins that make up our body is incredibly deterministic and not at all what…
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8. The Power of Lightly-Held Beliefs
What makes a good skeptic? Is it dismissing things that don't conform to your own beliefs about how the world should work from a scientific perspective? Or is…
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7. The True Origins of the Wim Hof Method
Depending who you ask, the Wim Hof method either originated out of Hof's mind after he first jumped into ice water, or it's part of an ancient tradition of…
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6. The Law of Speedy Gains
You've probably heard of the Law of Diminishing Returns where acquiring new skills ultimately tapers off until further gains are harder and harder to achieve…
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5. All Medicine is Mindful Medicine
Western medicine and alternative approaches are a lot more similar than you might think. In fact, every disease state that a person subjectively feels…
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4. Curse Psychobiology
This is the story of the three times I've been cursed and the strange events that happened in their wake. Anthropologists have known that curses have…
Scott Carney Investigates3. Inside the Underground Trade in Human Remains
Have you ever wondered about the skeletons that are hiding in your doctor's closet? I spent six years investigating the illegal world of organ trafficking and…
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2. We are the Descendents of Evolutionary Winners
Consciousness is a tool for biology to identify and interact and make decisions about the world at large. In this podcast I examine the concept of The Wedge…
Scott Carney Investigates1. The Enlightenment Trap
In 2012, thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson's search for spiritual transcendence ended in tragedy on a remote Arizona mountaintop. His wife, a woman anointed as…
Scott Carney InvestigatesThis is an Emergency Broadcast
This is an emergency Broadcast. In light of recent attacks on my YouTube channel it is obvious that I need to get my information out on as many channels as…