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Three mule deer wandered up to a brand-new bridge near Grass Lake, in the far north of California, and walked across it. The bridge was built just for them, and other animals, and a trail camera caught them taking advantage of it. Remarkably, the bridge was not even finished being built when they used it.…Continue reading The Kind of People Who Build Bridges for Animals
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For years, the only way to fight against the weedkiller Roundup has been in a courtroom. Individuals who asserted that their lives had been forever altered by cancer from the weedkiller sued its maker, Bayer, which purchased the chemical’s original manufacturer, Monsanto, by the tens of thousands. At times, juries agreed with the plaintiffs and…Continue reading Kennedy Is in the Room. But Whose Science Is on the Table?
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$53.5 billion. That is what twenty of the world’s largest grain, fertilizer, meat, and dairy companies paid their shareholders over 2021 and 2022. The United Nations estimates that it would cost about $51.5 billion to feed the 230 million most desperate, hungry people on earth. So a single slice of the food industry handed out…Continue reading $53.5 Billion: A Food System That Feeds Its Investors
If tech billionaires get their way, we may soon live in a future where children are not simply conceived and born, but are instead manipulated genetically before their first breath. What does this mean? Inherited illness is not merely treated before birth, but is edited out altogether. Think stronger bones, sharper minds, and fewer anxieties.…Continue reading WARNING: CRISPR, Capital, and the Slow Erosion of Human Inheritance
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Apple’s new Digital ID feature has arrived. And in true Apple fashion, it is dressed in the language of ease and convenience. Scan your passport into your iPhone or Apple Watch. Move through TSA with a quick tap. In other words, no wallet, no cards, and no friction. If you listen to Apple, it is…Continue reading Apple’s Quiet Path to Identity Control
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Autism was so rare when Dr. Andrew Wakefield went to medical school that he was not taught about it. Yet today, decades later, one in 31 children has autism. In 1998, as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Dr. Wakefield, whose specialty was inflammatory bowel disease, co-authored a paper published in The Lancet…Continue reading Finally Vindicated: Dr. Andrew Wakefield Was Right All Along
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At its simplest, the word “quack” is a slur that means someone who pretends to have medical skill or knowledge that they don’t actually possess. Merriam-Webster states that a quack is “A pretender to medical skill; one who falsely claims to have knowledge of medicine or to be able to cure a disease.” In today’s…Continue reading The Weaponization of “Quack”: Silencing Dissent in Modern Medicine
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Bill Gates recently published a Gates Notes that sounded less like his characteristic call to arms against devastating climate change and more like a strategic repositioning. In his memo, titled “Three Tough Truths About Climate,” Gates plainly noted the climate crisis he’d preached about and written a book on “will not lead to humanity’s demise”…Continue reading Bill Gates and the Death of His Climate Crisis Agenda
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New research has found that certain medications may affect your gut microbiome for years after you stop taking them. The latest report on how common medications can negatively shape our gut microbiome for decades isn’t a passing detail with little impact. Instead, it is a glaring red flag for how prescription medications might impact our…Continue reading The Lasting Impact of Prescription Drugs on Gut Health
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