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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-

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00:57:32

42. The Skeleton Business's Murderous Legacy

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2024/03/28

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

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00:50:53

41. How Sholto David took on a $1.7 Billion Pharma...

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2024/03/19

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

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01:06:05

40. Why did the USA pay $500 Billion to Nigerian...

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2024/03/12

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

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01:09:20

39. Gurus, Gatekeepers, and the Conspirituality...

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2024/03/05

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

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01:22:54

38. The Night Hag: Sleep Paralysis in the Age of...

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2024/02/27

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

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00:57:19

37. Captured by Pirates

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2024/02/08

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:

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01:24:41

36. The Neuroscientist Who Dared to tell the truth...

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2024/01/03

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

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00:51:19

35. Can Technology Save us from Climate Change?

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2023/11/25

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

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00:41:38

34. How Eric Hinman Went from Schlubby at 27 to...

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2023/11/19

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.

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01:09:09

33. Dr. Casey Fiesler, and the Monkey Selfie that...

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2023/11/05

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

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00:52:38

32. The Cult that Demands Two Slaves a Month

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2023/10/28

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

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01:07:12

31. Is Dan Ariely a Scientific Fraudster, or just...

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2023/10/23

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

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01:05:57

30. Shocking Stories from the Emergency Room: A...

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2023/10/14

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:

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00:53:16

29. The Story that almost Killed Me | How Organized...

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2023/10/08

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

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01:03:28

28. The Secret History of the Mongols

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2023/10/03

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

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00:52:52

27. How a Fake Guru founded a Real Cult | An...

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2023/09/23

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

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00:52:09

26. Why Liars Win

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2023/09/15

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

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01:05:10

25. The Death of Expertise with Jamie Carlin Watson

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2023/09/09

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 host of academic credentials at the end of his name who also happens to be an expert on the very notion of expertise. We discuss the madness that gripped the world during the COVID-19 epidemic, the fall of credenitalism and why both of us have zoom backgrounds full of prestigious looking books to show how smart we are. Find out more

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01:18:36

24. How Doctors Think: From Medical Barbarism to...

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2023/09/02

How does the barbaric history of medicine shed light on the future of artificial intelligence? How will computers transform the way doctors think? Will patients benefit from the placebo effect if they're talking to a robot? Adam Rodman M.D. http://bedside-rounds.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdamRodmanMD Bedside Rounds https://open.spotify.com/show/6GcbCZtWqmggsH70qlhaUU Books Mentioned: "Beyond Measure," James Vincent https://amzn.to/3L6KboN "Medical Thinking,"

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01:05:29

23. I am Become Death: Oppenheimer and the Kali Yuga

Scott Carney Investigates ·

2023/08/19

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 am Become Death, destroyer of worlds," framed the dawning of the age we live in today. I recently saw the Chirstopher Nolan's film on Robert Oppenheimer and it got me wondering about the famous passage. It's not just a badass phrase, but a deep philosophical consideration about the very meaning of Duty. In this week's

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