Scott Carney Investigates

Mark Hyman, a functional medicine doctor and bestselling author who champions longevity and food as medicine, recounts a near-fatal sepsis scare after a routine injection. He discusses decades of back pain, mysterious regenerative treatments linked to celebrity clinics, and the risks of cutting-edge therapies. Tension builds around secrecy, responsibility, and the fallout for wellness influencers.

A three-and-a-half-hour compilation exposing wellness grifters and the marketing machinery behind them. Investigations cover Athletic Greens’ citations, founder scandals, and influencer conflicts. Stories include fascia blaster tactics, a controversial meditation guru, dangerous street tonics, kratom issues, and the rise-and-fall of a high-profile longevity researcher. Follow-the-money patterns and elite networks get pulled apart.

Craig Unger, investigative journalist and bestselling author, breaks down the Paradise Papers link to Jeffrey Epstein and the vast offshore dark-money system. He maps Epstein’s financial shells, ties to Wall Street and intelligence circles, and how laundering connected powerful figures to foreign money. The conversation traces surveillance, kompromat, and the political risks of hidden wealth.

An investigative reckoning with a charismatic wellness leader and the harms tied to his methods. Stories of drownings and blackouts linked to breathwork and cold immersion. Examination of cult-like organizational control, branding, and troubling personal history. A warning about how charismatic figures can distort beneficial practices into dangerous instruction.

Would you invest in something that you fundamentally don’t trust? I’m not just talking about money here. I’m talking about investing every ounce of your life’s work, the safety of your family, your children’s future. I’m talking about everything.

A deep dive into the influencer-driven electrolyte boom and how salt, sugar, potassium and added B vitamins became lifestyle commodities. The conversation questions whether everyday diets already supply enough electrolytes and examines why sachets and pre-mixed drinks are so profitable. Listeners hear about rising reports of vitamin B overexposure and why certain additives may function more as marketing than medicine.

You’ve heard of Project 2025: the manifesto that has become the de facto guiding light for the second Trump administration. Its twisted Christian-nationalist agenda has brought us a wave of ICE raids across America, tax cuts for billionaire, gutted climate policies and using the FBI to prosecute and harass political opponents. Project 2025 was written by the conservative DC think tank, the Heritage Foundation, which recently released a new vision for women’s role in society called “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years” that aims to severely curtail women’s rights, including the right to divorce and maybe even vote. To talk about it today I’ve brought on the New York Times opinion columnist and author of the book “Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood” Jessica Grose onto the show today.Jess Grose on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jessgrosewrites/Her website: https://jessicagrose.com/Get Early Access on Substackhttps://sgcarney.substack.com/Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3PyxGKt94kLzVqkkjEgRFw/join

An exploration of released Epstein files and what private communications reveal about elite networks. A look at how a prominent physician entered Epstein’s orbit and leveraged exclusivity. Examination of email patterns, moral tradeoffs among the super rich, and how access became a currency. Guidance on where to browse the documents yourself.

When thousands of ICE agents descended on Minneapolis and began kidnapping people off the streets, the residents didn’t just stand by and let it all happen. Ordinary citizens like you and me spontaneously organized on Signal chats and began tracking ICE’s movements through they city. They warned their most vulnerable neighbors with whistles and car alarms and video taped arrests across the city. Friends of mine began delivering food to people too scared to leave their houses and carpooled their children to school. All of this happened in the face of ever-increasing violence from a fascist-anti-democratic state with seemingly unlimited resources to spend on harassing ordinary Americans. On today’s show I wanted to reflect on the miraculous organization of an effective citizen resistance in Minneapolis and offer hope to people in other cities who have not yet had ICE land on their doorstep. The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have supercharged the active resistance movement in across America. The lessons of Minneapolis will spread across the country. In this video I’m going to discuss how you can get involved and join the resistance more actively than just posting angry messages on social media. My guest today is Jack Jones, better known as Quadzilla. He’s an ex-army infantryman and wild land firefighter who has been organizing information about the decline of America’s democratic order and fall into totalitarianism. When I first started following him a year ago my thoughts were–oh man, this guy is extreme. He was telling Americans to arm themselves and get ready for occupation. I think that Jack was something of an oracle who saw what was happening before anyone wanted to believe he was right. Get Early Access on Substackhttps://sgcarney.substack.com/

Amandeep Jutla, clinical psychiatry professor at Columbia who studies how chatbots can reinforce delusions. Ragy Girgis, Columbia psychiatry professor researching psychiatric risks from large language models. They explain AI psychosis types, how chatbots can echo and strengthen harmful beliefs, tests showing models often reinforce psychotic prompts, and the risks of anthropomorphic, companion-style AI. Practical warnings and industry critique follow.