HMM: 90 Chinese nuclear scientists resigned; investigation underway.

The State Council, China’s Cabinet, has sent an investigative team with other government agencies to look into the recent resignation of over 90 nuclear security scientists at an institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the academy said on Tuesday.

The mystery surrounding the resignation of half of the employees in that research institute became one of the most talked-about topics in China.

The team consists of officials from the State Council’s general office, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the CAS and other departments. It will head to Hefei, Anhui province, to thoroughly investigate the situation, the academy said.

The recent resignation of over 90 nuclear security scientists at the academy’s Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology has ignited public speculation on institutional bureaucracy, employee poaching and inadequate financial support for young scientific talent.

Plus this zinger at the end: “The timing of their resignation also made the Chinese netizens wonder if the scientists wanted to break their ties with the Chinese Communist Party before its imminent demise.”

DISHONESTLY, FOR THE MOST PART. How the Media Uses Tiny Petitions To Make Leftist Positions Front-Page News: This weekends phony outrage at Trader Joe’s proves how outlets like the New York Times use ‘public pressure’ to make companies and politicians do what they want.

This only works because companies and politicians have no backbone.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Diversity and Inclusion Enforcement: A Professor’s Account: Title IX bureaucracy at its finest: reactive, unfair, and destructive to the pursuit of knowledge.

“GREAT, BUT THIS IS NOWHERE NEAR GOOD ENOUGH:” NBA to Close Training Camp in China in Area Where Muslim Concentration Camps are Located.

TYLER O’NEIL: Joe Biden Says America Has ’Never’ Had a More Racist President Than Trump. Here Are 8.

GIVEN HOW THE CORONAVIRUS MODELS HAVE WORKED, GOOD LUCK: Scientists attempt to model spread of social unrest, riots.

ANDREW CUOMO: FAILURE. Sweden Had a Far Better Covid Outcome Than New York and Did Nothing.

ALL THIS SCIENCE, I DON’T UNDERSTAND; IT’S JUST MY JOB FIVE DAYS A WEEK: Breathtaking 4K video shows Mars in ultra-high definition.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: WSJ Reporters Follow NYT, Tell Publisher To Crack Down On ‘Misinformation’ In Opinion Section. “A group of more than 280 WSJ reporters, editors, and other staff sent a letter to Latour on Tuesday calling for more separation between the paper’s news and opinion sections online. The letter also asked for more freedom for reporters to critique opinion articles online and said the opinion staff should be more restrictive in what it chooses to publish, according to WSJ which reported on the letter.”

In other words, the mostly under-40 reporting staff wants veto power over the opinion page.

CHANGE: National Space Council Releases Report on Deep Space Exploration and Development.

FLASHBACK: Why US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan: US-funded $3.7 million project approved by Trump’s Covid-19 guru Dr Anthony Fauci in 2015 after US ban imposed on ‘monster-germ’ research. Because this story is over a week old and I haven’t seen anything.

Back in October 2014, the US government had placed a federal moratorium on gain-of-function (GOF) research – altering natural pathogens to make them more deadly and infectious – as a result of rising fears about a possible pandemic caused by an accidental or deliberate release of these genetically engineered monster germs.

This was in part due to lab accidents at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in July 2014 that raised questions about biosafety at US high-containment labs.

At that time, the CDC had closed two labs and halted some biological shipments in the wake of several incidents in which highly pathogenic microbes were mishandled by US government laboratories: an accidental shipment of live anthrax, the discovery of forgotten live smallpox samples and a newly revealed incident in which a dangerous influenza strain was accidentally shipped from the CDC to another lab.

A CDC internal report described how scientists failed to follow proper procedures to ensure samples were inactivated before they left the lab, and also found “multiple other problems” with operating procedures in the anthrax lab.

As such in October 2014, because of public health concerns, the US government banned all federal funding on efforts to weaponize three viruses – influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

In the face of a moratorium in the US, Dr Anthony Fauci – the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and currently the leading doctor in the US Coronavirus Task Force – outsourced in 2015 the GOF research to China’s Wuhan lab and licensed the lab to continue receiving US government funding.

The Wuhan lab is now at the center of scrutiny for possibly releasing the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and causing the global Covid-19 pandemic.

Worth remembering Fauci’s role here, as it may influence his conduct today.

WELL, GOOD: At-home COVID-19 test kits accurate, might bolster screening effort, study says.

DEAL! Rashida Tlaib on Sending Federal Law Enforcement to Detroit, ‘They’ll Have to Arrest Me First.’

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Louisiana Supreme Court grants ‘diploma privilege’ to let recent grads practice without bar exam.

SMART GROWTH: Tesla Austin Factory Now Official.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Why College Is Never Coming Back. “It’s great for families, who’ll save money and take on less debt putting kids through school. It’s great for kids, who’ll no longer be lured into the socialist indoctrination centers that many American campuses have become.”

If only there had been some sort of warning.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Chicago Mayor Hires Gangs To Spell Out ‘Trump Is Bad’ With Bullet Holes.

WHO? Joe Biden’s Gobsmackingly Absurd Claim About Trump’s ‘Racism.’

SEMPER SUPRA: Space Force unveils official motto and Star Trek-ish logo. A friend on Facebook suggests “Respice de Inferius” — “Look out below!”

And despite the headline, the Star Trek logo was lifted from the Air Force, not the other way around.

MAYOR BANE SAYS WHAT? De Blasio: We’ll sue if Trump orders federal police to defend federal property in NYC. “Alternative headline: Bill de Blasio enjoys new hobby of losing in court.”

Elsewhere in failed, crime-ridden cities with Democrat mayors: ‘Absolutely insane!’ Chicago mayor tells citizens of violence-ravaged city to call 9-1-1… if federal officers ‘step out of line.’

2ND AMENDMENT SUPPORTERS IN TRAINING: Gun Sales Spike in 2020, Driven by New Purchases by Black Men and Women.

THANKS TO COVID-19, HOUSTON IS HOME TO TEXAS’ FIRST DRIVE-THRU STRIP CLUB:

Once inside the tent, every car has a two-song limit so “you’re able to get some live entertainment” while your food is being prepared, according to general manager Gino DiLollo.

Second look at Pink Floyd’s 23-minute-long “Echoes” and the half-hour live version of Led Zeppelin’s “Dazed and Confused?”

HOW REVERSE RACISM SPREADS OUTWARD FROM CAMPUS: Racial preferences launched in the 1970s for Black and Hispanic students seeking admission to elite schools like Harvard have put more minority kids in the classrooms, but that’s just the beginning of a destructive cycle for everybody involved.

Writing for RealClearPolitics, Linda Chavez points to the next step in the story:

“But blacks do not necessarily benefit, either, from the widespread adoption of racial preferences in admissions on their behalf. As Richard H. Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr., pointed out in their comprehensive study of the effect of racial preferences in college admissions on black student performance, “Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It,” schools using racial preferences end up admitting students who often place in the lower rankings of their class and struggle to finish college or pass professional exams.

“In turn, these students struggle more even after they graduate, failing to advance in their chosen careers if their college grades are subpar, which becomes proof for some not that preferences fail to achieve their goal, but that systemic racism follows blacks into the professional world, requiring yet more racial preferences in hiring and promotion.”

That in a nutshell is how legally sanctioned racial discrimination spreads from campus to government to corporate boardrooms. Once the official steps are taken away from the conviction that all men are equal to the fable that some are more equal than others, corruption spreads.

Or, to put it another way, if you begin with a fundamentally flawed understanding of the problem — think “systemic racism” or “Big Government” — your solutions won’t work, and you will be trapped in an endless cycle of failure that continually reinforces the original misconception.

THIS JUST TELLS ME THE TIKTOK COLLECTS TONS OF VALUABLE DATA: US investors try to buy TikTok from Chinese owner.