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
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?
$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
The hornet’s nest of trauma and incomplete closure stemming from the failed pandemic response has been kicked again…hard. Fauci’s non-testimony in front of Sen. Rand Paul’s Senate Homeland Security Committee and, perhaps more importantly, Paul’s Reading Room document dump of all Fauci’s pandemic correspondence has reignited the public’s appetite for justice. There is plenty of…Continue reading Corporate Media Gets A Do-Over on Pandemic Reporting Only To Fail Again
Marine veteran Chad Robichaux came home after serving our nation in Afghanistan in one piece, or so it seemed. Robichaux served eight deployments as a Force Recon Marine, and once he returned home, he did everything right to take care of himself. He ate a clean diet and trained hard enough to fight professionally. But…Continue reading Before the SSRI: Common Sense Finally Reaches the War Department
Some people spend their lives searching for purpose. Trish lived hers. To those of us at ICAN, Patricia “Trish” Neuenschwander was family. She was the beloved wife of our Board President, Dr. Neu. She was also a fierce advocate, a trusted friend, and a deeply loved member of this community. She believed wholeheartedly in ICAN’s…Continue reading Remembering Trish: A Beloved Member of the ICAN Family
Eli Lilly, the Big Pharma player that introduced Prozac to the world, just spent up to $3.8 billion to move into psychedelics. The main drug in the deal—a manufactured form of 5-MeO-DMT, a psychedelic found in the venom of the Sonoran Desert Toad—is a chemical cousin of the compound psilocybin found in magic mushrooms, often…Continue reading Rewiring the Brain Without the Reckoning
The Make America Healthy Again movement and its figurehead, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have a full plate. The historical changes his administration has made have also been met with several speed bumps, to put things lightly. While the push-pull dynamic plays out, some causes wait on the sidelines to be activated. What appears…Continue reading Will MAHA Plug In to Data Center Pushback?
In 2019, the online platform and game creation system Roblox told the U.S. government about 675 suspected cases of child sexual exploitation on its platform. Four years later, that number had grown to more than thirteen thousand. In 2025, that number had grown to over 65,000. Nobody had to go undercover and coax those figures…Continue reading Playground for Predators. Profit for Platforms. Who’s Really Grooming Our Kids?