TRUST THE SCIENCE: NIH spent $500 million on research linked to faked results by former Harvard scientist. “The federal government poured over half a billion dollars into medical research based on fabricated results from a Harvard scientist, according to a recent Reuters report. The analysis published on Tuesday found that the U.S. National Institutes of Health spent at least $588 million on research related to Piero Anversa’s hypothesis that adult stem cells can regenerate heart tissue and cure heart disease. . . . Some of this money came after the federal government had been notified of problems with Anversa’s research. More than 40 percent of these funds were awarded after March 2013, after the federal government had been informed of allegations against Anversa.”

BIDEN ADMIN BRINGING BACK TITLE IX ABUSE WITH NEW REGS. They eliminate students’ right to a live hearing and to cross-examination and adopt a definition of sexual misconduct that (surprise!) can easily be used to censor political speech. FIRE will, of course, be on the front lines pushing back. And for a refresher, the Martin Center recalls some of the more notorious abuses dating from the Obama years. Expect this stuff to return.

EVEN OUR MAINSTREAM MEDIA CAN CARRY ONLY SO MUCH WATER: Bloomberg News Fact-Checks Absurd Inflation Narrative by Biden Administration.

DAVID HARSANYI: The Supreme Court’s Decision Is a Huge Win for the Constitution. But there’s this:

The modern left doesn’t even bother pretending they believe the Supreme Court has a responsibility to act as a separate branch of government and adjudicate the constitutionality of law. Rather than even ostensibly offering legal reasons for their ire, Democrats simply demand the Supreme Court uphold public sentiment (or, rather what they claim is public sentiment), even though SCOTUS exists to ignore those pressures. The fact that that attitude has congealed as the norm in one of our major political parties does not bode well for the future of the Republic.

The left doesn’t value any institution except to the extent it advances the left’s goals of the moment. On the other hand, the traditional flaw of the right is that it respects institutions too much, regardless of whether they’re actually performing their assigned functions. The right, at least, seems to be learning.

MY OLD USA TODAY EDITOR DAVID MASTIO: USA Today demoted me for a tweet — because its woke newsrooms are out of touch with readers.

They really are. Plus: “I was demoted after I tweeted, ‘People who are pregnant are also women.’ . . . What I do worry about is that Gannett shareholders are being taken for a ride. Gannett’s story is that it is becoming the USA Today network in which newspapers in dozens of states will embrace diversity, reflect their communities and bubble up a uniquely accurate view of America that millions will pay for. But what if our journalism is written by people who look like America but sound like the Harvard English Department? What if we look like our communities but don’t think anything like them or share their values and priorities? Readers are bound to notice.”

Oh, they have, which is why my local Gannett paper has shrunk down to something more like the Thrifty Nickel.

And check out David’s new home at Straight Arrow News.

BRUEN: The Key Ways Justice Thomas Vanquished Gun Grabbers in his Bruen Decision.

NOW OUT: The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.

AS THE SUPREME COURT ADVANCES CIVIL RIGHTS, States with strict gun-permitting laws consider next steps. Cue “massive resistance” to the Court’s latest civil rights decision.

NOW? NOW?  Under Biden’s DHS, all dissenters are now ‘domestic extremists’.

FALLOUT: China floats BRICS free-trade deal, while Russia’s Vladimir Putin calls for an alternative to US dollar. “Earlier at the forum, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the countries were exploring the creation of an international reserve currency based on a basket made up of real, roubles, rupees, yuan and rand, as an effort to develop an alternative for international settlements dominated by the US dollar.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Uvalde police failure reinforces the need for the Second Amendment.

NAH, EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Could the Railroad Industry Go Completely Off the Track?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Faculty Salaries Fall 5%, The Biggest One-Year Drop In History. And this is before the recession/depression got started.

HAHA: Mansplaining Works: Kamala Harris Takes Husband’s Advice, Succeeds for First Time as VP.

BAGLEY NOT HEADED TO BRAZIL: That’s as in Elizabeth Bagley, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. Adam Kredo has the inside story on why Bagley’s nomination failed to get out of committee in the Senate.

PELOSI READIES THIRD TRUMP IMPEACHMENT: This Issues & Insights take was funny until I realized it really is easily conceivable, given the givens about the Speaker of the House. The guy in the Oval Office isn’t the only fading Octogenarian in power.

EARLY PRIME DEAL: Insignia 32-inch Smart HD Fire TV. #CommissonEarned

BIG LAW FIRMS ARE MAKING A TERRIBLE DECISION IN CHOOSING CULTURE-WAR SIDES HERE: Former SG Paul Clement on Leaving Kirkland & Ellis After It Decided to Withdraw from Second Amendment Cases.

With things like this, and Jones, Day dropping its representation of Donald Trump under pressure ginned up by the Lincoln Project, big law firms are now morally responsible for whoever they do choose to represent. When they represented accused Al Qaeda terrorists, they moralized about how everyone deserves representation. But they clearly don’t believe that now.

If people choose to organize to get them fired by governments and institutions because of their politics or clients, they will only have themselves to blame.

In addition, dropping ongoing matters for political reasons verges on unethical.

CAN YOU MAKE A WORM WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT IT? Philosopher of Biology Paul Nelson looks at the C Elegans, a common soil worm, and points out some amazing facts about its creation. Like that it has approximately 100 million base-pairs of DNA? Try mapping the decision chain for that.

PETER ZEIHAN: China’s Rise Will Be Short Lived. “China is amazing, just not for the reasons most opine. The country will soon have traveled from preindustrial levels of wealth and health to postindustrial demographic collapse in a single human lifetime. With considerable time to spare.”

I’m always wary of “China is about to implode” stories, going back more than 20 years when I first read Gordon Chang’s The Coming Collapse of China. Still, Zeihan’s piece included this bit of trivia that was new to me: “Nearly all of China’s 600 million-strong population growth since 1970 isn’t from more births, but from longer lifespans and fewer deaths.”

THE DOJ IS JUST A POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE WITH LAWYERS AND GUNS NOWADAYS: Dems Lose Their Minds, DOJ Makes Concerning Statement on SCOTUS Gun Rights Decision. “NY Gov. Kathy Hochul didn’t take the decision well. Indeed, she said they would fight for even more restrictions, despite the Supreme Court’s decision. Hochul said that if the Court wanted to consider the original meaning of the Constitution, she was willing to go back to ‘muskets.’ She revealed not only how extreme she is, but how ignorant she is of the law.”

Well, she’s like Andrew Cuomo but dumber and less telegenic.

Plus: “The DOJ also issued a concerning statement, again not saying that they would uphold the decision but saying they ‘disagree.'”

When Democrats like what the Court does, it’s the supreme law of the land. When they don’t like it, it’s just, like, some court’s opinion, man.

THE RULING CLASS GETS THE UPWARD REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IT WANTS: Joel Kotkin: Class is back: The global cost-of-living crisis has made obscene inequalities impossible to ignore.

KRUISER: Will Dems Move to Stack the Court in the Wake of Gun Rights Decision?

FROM J. D. BECKWITH:  eConscience Beta.  #CommissionEarned

Peacekeeper Incorporated’s breakthrough nanotechnology could bring repeat offense crime to an end, freeing society from the need for criminal incarcerations. But first, they have to finish testing it. With funding on the line, and time to prove out the project getting short, the lead scientist must find a way speed things up. That’s unfortunate for his guinea pig, and anyone who would stand in his way.

Can the goal of ending most crime justify committing one… even a few?
And what happens when you conflate altruism with egotism?

Find out in eConscience Beta, where two lab techs and an uncouth petty criminal must outwit a brilliant but sociopathic scientist who’ll stop at nothing to establish his legacy as the man who ended crime.

TO BE FAIR, THE WIFE WAS NOT A BIOLOGIST:  Wife stunned to learn her husband is a woman after 10 months of marital sex.