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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Outrage as NY Mag exposed Andrew Huberman as he gave one of his 5 girlfriends HPV, cancer-causing STDs.
In an alarming exposé, several women have come forward accusing neuroscientist and celebrated podcaster Andrew Huberman of manipulation, bizarre behavior, and infidelity that may have led to a sexually transmitted infection in at least one of them.
Published by New York Magazine, this deep dive into the disparate public and private lives of the Stanford University neuroscientist illustrates a jarring portrait of a man who promotes physical and mental health and wellness — but engaged in bizarre interpersonal behavior, including secretly dating five women simultaneously.
The moment such a male role model achieves prominence, the hunt is on for the ways in which he is less than perfect. These are then wielded to deflate any pretensions he may have had to serving as a figure for admiration or emulation. It’s a pattern that repeats, on a symbolic level, the repeated statue-toppling incidents since the BLM riots. It’s hard to avoid the sense that as with the statues, what’s being attacked is less the specific sins of a particular flawed hero and more the idea that any male figures should stand out and be emulated full stop.
As a discursive register, therapy-speak was developed with the aim of enabling sincerity and authentic encounter; Huberman’s proficiency with it suggests that with skilled bad-faith use it’s equally effective as a tool for manipulation. Still more striking, though, is how neatly this story fits another contemporary pattern: the speed and urgency with which male role models are first deified and then, just as swiftly, attacked.
Much of the story centers around a woman whom NYMag calls Sarah, who spent years dating the “Huberman Lab” host in what she believed to be an exclusive relationship. Along with accusing the 48-year-old podcaster of obfuscating about his other relationships, Sarah described Huberman as being intense and controlling, including — in a particularly unhinged twist — constantly relitigating her romantic and reproductive decisions from back before they were together.
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