Scott Carney
Investigative journalist and anthropologist
Scott Carney is an American investigative journalist and anthropologist. He wrote What Doesn't Kill Us, a New York Times bestseller that grew out of his reporting on Wim Hof.
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American Born 1978 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States
About Scott Carney
Scott Carney is an American investigative journalist, author and anthropologist. He has been a contributing editor at Wired, and his stories have also appeared in Mother Jones, Foreign Policy and Playboy. In 2010 he won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for a story tracing an international ring that moved kidnapped children into adoption. In 2014 Carney became the first American journalist to write about Wim Hof, in a piece for Playboy. That research led to What Doesn't Kill Us, which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for two months in 2017. His first book, The Red Market, came out in 2011, and he later wrote The Wedge, which looks at the core ideas of the Wim Hof Method. Carney reported from Chennai, India, between 2006 and 2009, and he speaks Hindi. In 2015 he founded Foxtopus Ink, a Denver-based media company that makes audio books, video courses and podcasts.