46 episodes

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

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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-

    45. Power, Sex and Psychopathy with Dr. Kate Balestrieri

    45. Power, Sex and Psychopathy with Dr. Kate Balestrieri

    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



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    ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠

    ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠

    The Vortex

    The Red Market

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    • 1 hr
    44. The New Science of Ice Bathing | Brad Schoenfeld

    44. The New Science of Ice Bathing | Brad Schoenfeld

    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



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    ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠

    ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠

    The Vortex

    The Red Market

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    • 39 min
    43. What's Wrong with Huberman's Science? | ft Dr. Andrea Love

    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 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
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    ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠

    ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠

    The Vortex

    The Red Market

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    • 57 min
    42. The Skeleton Business's Murderous Legacy

    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 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



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    Books:

    ⁠The Wedge⁠ 

    ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠

    ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠

    The Vortex

    The Red Market

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    • 57 min
    41. How Sholto David took on a $1.7 Billion Pharma Behemoth

    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 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. 

    • 50 min
    40. Why did the USA pay $500 Billion to Nigerian Hackers? | ft. Jack Rhysider of Darknet Diaries

    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? 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: 

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    ⁠The Wedge⁠ 

    ⁠What Doesn't Kill Us⁠

    ⁠The Enlightenment Trap⁠

    The Vortex

    The Red Market

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