The Alkaline Grift

There’s a man sitting in a California state prison right now because he convinced cancer patients that baking soda IV drips would save their lives. He’s also the reason half of Hollywood has a $4,000 water machine on the kitchen…

Your Lying Eyes

There used to be a thing called “seeing is believing.” You watched it happen. You trusted your eyes. Your eyes had never lied to you before, at least not intentionally. That’s over now. What a Deepfake Actually Is Deepfakes are…

The Homesteaders

There’s a woman on the internet who wakes up before sunrise, bakes sourdough from scratch, milks her own cows, raises nine kids, and looks like she just stepped out of a painting. Her farm is beautiful. Her kitchen is warm.…

The Carnivore Grift

Somewhere on Instagram right now, a guy with “Dr.” in his bio is telling you that seed oils are slowly killing you, that your ancestral lineage demands you eat raw beef liver, and that for $197 a month he’ll coach…

Well Done: The Raw Food Grift

Somewhere between the campfire and the microwave, we lost the plot. Cooking food is one of the oldest and most consequential things humans have ever done. We’ve been doing it for somewhere between 500,000 and a million years, depending on…

The Scroll Machine

When I was a kid, boredom was just a thing that happened to you. You sat there. You stared at the ceiling. Maybe you went outside and found something to do, or maybe you didn’t. Either way, you lived through…