Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of Control
For our latest cover story, @KerryHowley went deep into the wellness-obsessed world of Andrew Huberman, talking with former girlfriends who reveal a darker side to the neuroscientist-turned-podcast host: manipulative behavior, deceit, and numerous affairs https://t.co/kaskJ3P8UT pic.twitter.com/WUqYhPURxH
- New York Magazine (@NYMag) March 25, 2024
Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., the host of the Huberman Lab podcast, a neuroscientist and tenured professor at Stanford School of Medicine, is accused of affairs with multiple women.
The whole article is worth reading, but here are some bullet points for those who don't want to do that:
• 5 women were believed to be in exclusive relationships with Huberman, and at least two had unprotected sex with him.
• One of the women, Sarah, has been in a three-year relationship with Huberman and had been undergoing IVF treatment to have a child with him when she found out he had been cheating on her.
• She learned about it after she tested positive for a high-risk form of HPV, one of the variants linked to cervical cancer. A spokesperson for Huberman says he has never tested positive for HPV. According to the CDC, there is currently no approved test for HPV in men.
• He fixated on her decision to have children with another man and called having her second child a bad choice.
• Presenting himself as a working scientist with a lab at Stanford, Huberman lives 350 miles and a six-hour drive from Stanford University. According to the sources, the lab is a postdoc working alone.
• Athletic Greens, known as AG1, is a $79-a-month powder promoted by Huberman, that contains, according to its own marketing, 75 active ingredients. It can be almost guaranteed that literally every ingredient within this proprietary blend is underdosed.
• Andrew’s interactions with other women were explained to Sarah by calling the women stalkers, alcoholics, and compulsive liars.
• The women compared time-stamped screenshots of texts and discovered that Huberman had texted nearly identical pictures of himself to two of them at the same time.
"They realized that on March 21, 2021, a day of admittedly impressive logistical jujitsu, while Sarah was in Berkeley, Andrew had flown Mary from Texas to L.A. to stay with him in Topanga. While Mary was there, visiting from thousands of miles away, he left her with Costello. He drove to a coffee shop, where he met Eve".
• He used therapeutic language to communicate a commitment that was not real, to familiarise himself with the internality of women, which was then used to manipulate them.
• Huberman’s story of childhood in a divorced home of “pure neglect” and time in the detention center where "a couple of kids killed themselves" might be an exaggeration. His parents said that the divorce was a difficult time for him, but not to this extent. New York was unable to find an account of suicides. His classmates do not recall him getting into street fights, as Andrew claims he did.
"What does seem certain is that in his adolescence, Andrew became a regular consumer of talk therapy. In therapy, one learns to tell stories about one’s experience. A story one could tell is: I overcame immense odds to be where I am. Another is: The son of a Stanford professor, born at Stanford Hospital, grows up to be a Stanford professor".
• Three of the women on the group text met up in New York in February, and the group has only grown closer. They are planning a weekend together this summer.
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Kerry goes into great detail in the article, using instances from his podcast, so I highly recommend reading it.
Mods, i know it's not a new piece, but we are in desperate need to discuss something else besides Taylor🙏