Stand up, actor and podcast host of "Justifying My Movie Collection" and "We Watch Wrestling", Matt McCarthy describes his distinctive redheaded receeding hairline as bald curious. Matt gets into the self reliant power of stand up verses improv, his past love affair with mushrooms (the psychedelic kind), and he and Cha

Sam Harris speaks with Matt McCarthy about his book "Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic." They discuss the problem of drug resistant bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses, and the failure of the pharmaceutical industry to keep pace with evolution. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can

Matt McCarthy (@drmattmccarthy) is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, a staff physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the author of Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic. What We Discuss with Matt McCarthy: How antibiotics are abused on a large scale by industrial agriculture, prescription-

In his new book “Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic,” Dr. Matt McCarthy explores the history of bacteria and antibiotics, from Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin, to obscure sources of innovative new medicines to the cutting-edge DNA manipulation known as CRISPR, bringing to light how we arrived at this j