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Pushing Past Perceived Limits - Scott Carney, Journalist and Anthropologist

Pushing Past Perceived Limits - Scott Carney, Journalist and Anthropologist

FromRaise the Line


Pushing Past Perceived Limits - Scott Carney, Journalist and Anthropologist

FromRaise the Line

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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Feb 24, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Scott Carney trained as an anthropologist, thinking the academic life would facilitate new adventures. He soon found journalism to be a better fit, moved to India, and discovered an organ tracking scandal in a village right next door. His reporting on that helped launch a career fueled by frantic curiosity that frequently centers around habit formation and how the human body integrates with the dizzying world around us, his books The Wedge and What Doesn't Kill Us being prime examples. With a new book on climate change coming out -- and many more books in development -- Carney’s writing testifies to the blurry line between objectivity and subjectivity in journalism and medicine alike. Tune in to hear about the time he partook in a clinical trial for erectile dysfunction, the thing that new research into psychedelics misses, and how Carney set off to debunk Wim Hof’s methods, only to find the real story was far more complicated.Mentioned in this episode:https://www.scottcarney.com/the-wedgehttps://www.scottcarney.com/what-doesnt-kill-ushttps://www.foxtopus.ink
Released:
Feb 24, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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