Dr. Mah-dava Set-tee is a board certified and senior staff anesthesiologist at a major hospital in the Greater Boston area. He is also a science advisor for the International Center for 911 Justice, and earlier served as a senior science editor for Bobby Kennedy's Children's Health Defense. Madhava received an engineering degree from MIT and later worked for the aerospace and defense industries. This included a research expedition to the Arctic polar cap for US Naval Research. He later returned to school and received a medical degree from Baylor University College of Medicine and anesthesiology training at the University of Pennsylvania. With over 20 years experience in the field of anesthesiology, which involves dealing with the most challenging questions about the nature of mind and consciousness, Dr Setty has been challenging modern medicine and neuroscience's fundamental assumptions about the meaning of awareness. He is the author of "Woke: An Anesthesiologist's View", which explores whether we might be living in a dark age of unfounded beliefs rather than real knowledge, and a culture unable to distinguish fact from fiction. Madhava's hosts a substack newsletter An Insult to Intuition, which offers his thoughts on politics, science, consciousness and various social issues. His website is MadhavaSettyMD.com