Dr Karan Explores21 Mar 2025

How Human BODY PARTS Are Being Illegally Traded Around the World | Scott Carney

💬 “ We are basically farming poor people for their organs, and that is dystopian.” ~Scott Carney

⚡️ Scott Carney is an investigative journalist and author of “The Red Market”, where he investigates the macabre underworld of the global body trade. Scott is also a well-known YouTuber, where he exposes and debunks science grifters.

⚡ In this episode Scott and I explore the shocking size of the illegal organ trade, the deep inequities that lead people to sell their organs - and why human body parts are more sought after than ever.

🎧 Stay tuned to find out:

➡ Why entire villages are selling their kidneys!

➡︎ The questionable ethics of some of medicine’s greatest advancements

➡︎ The real-life horror story of a sadistic blood broker

➡︎ Why the poorest people in the world are most at risk of being exploited

➡︎ How Scott helped to shut down surrogacy houses in India

📕 Chapters

(0:45) What is the Red Market?

(4:40) How much money is being made?

(7:13) Morally questionable medical breakthroughs

(13:44) Kidney villages

(16:46) Are people really kidnapped for kidneys?

(22:38) Corruption within healthcare

(26:33) How would you source an illegal organ?

(28:45) The Burke and Hare murders

(35:06) The forced surrogacy industry

(39:59) The biggest thing Scott’s uncovered

(42:14) Threats to Scott’s life for his work

(44:24) What is being done to tackle the Red Market?

📱 Connect with me:

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📱 Connect with Scott:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sgcarney/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sgcarney/

📕 Check out Scott’s other books:

-Dream: The Art & Science of Slumber

-The Vortex

-The Wedge

-What Doesn't Kill Us

-The Enlightenment Trap

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