BLAME ST. FAUCI AND LOCKDOWN CULTURE: UNICEF: 67 million children in 112 nations missed vaccinations during the pandemic.

SCIENCE! King’s College London rejects research on trans athletes for calling men ‘males.’

Armstrong told The College Fix via email he was told to “contact the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team to seek input on the wording used in the survey and surrounding presentation of the research.”

Armstrong, a lecturer and mathematician at the university, said “the specific text they objected to was in the presentation of the research.”

“The language is not sensitive and the misgendering of athletes is not appropriate,” the research review team told Armstrong. This is because he wanted to ask individuals their thoughts about “when males should be allowed to compete in the female category in athletics.”

“This is different to the language used by World Athletics,” the research team told him.

Professor Armstrong said that athletes who are critical of transgender participation in elite competition have lost a chance to be heard, due to the obstacles imposed on research into the topic.

That means the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team is functioning as designed.

WATCH: Justin Trudeau Weeps as Twitter Slaps ‘State Media’ Label on CBC.

MARK JUDGE: Al Jaffee and how Mad magazine created modern American humor.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College Debate Team Comes Out Against Debate. “In response to a controversial campus speaker, James Madison University’s debate team announced that ‘a general climate of free speech should not extend to requiring us to platform or amplify ideas that are exclusionary, discriminatory, or hostile.'”

Sorry, you’re morons who shouldn’t be in college. Report to Walmart for employment. Though that’s probably unfair to Walmart.

THEY WENT WOKE: Army, Navy and Air Force predict recruiting shortfalls this year. “The Army is projecting the largest shortfall of all, as it did last year, proving to be the bellwether for recruiting crunches across the armed services, at a time when the Defense Department is trying to grow its overall ranks by about 12,000.”

FAUCI’S LEGACY: Judicial Watch Obtains Docs Showing U.S. Funded Wuhan Lab Research From 2013-2020.

ELECTED THUGS: MATT TAIBBI: House Democrats Have Lost Their Minds: Representative Stacey Plaskett, who called Michael Shellenberger and me “direct threats to people who oppose them,” is now threatening me with prison – over Mehdi Hasan’s uncorrected error.

HMM: China’s 19.6% youth unemployment rate is nearing a record-high and may pose ‘a threat to social stability.’

Unemployment among those aged 16 to 24 rose to 19.6% in March, up from 18.1% in both January and February, and inching toward the 19.9% of last July, the highest level since records began in 2018. Youth unemployment was 16% in March 2022.

Joblessness among the young remains “stubbornly high,” says Alicia Garcia-Herrero, chief Asia Pacific economist at investment bank Natixis.

China’s worsening youth unemployment situation was an outlier in a report that otherwise showed an improving economy.

And those are the official numbers.

It’s also very strange that China, where the working-age population is already shrinking, can’t generate youth jobs in a growing economy.

Well, in an economy that’s officially growing, anyway.

“SCIENCE:” Concern over academic research fraud grows after scholar cooked data on racism.

CHANGE: Twitter Quietly Drops Its Rule Against Calling a Man a Man If He’s Mentally Ill and Deluded.

DIVIDE AND RULE: Segregated graduations separate students by identity.

SCIENCE IS NEVER SETTLED: Oops. That climate science isn’t quite as settled…

New research shows that methane is still a powerful greenhouse gas, but nothing like what is claimed regularly.

This is the sort of thing that happens all the time in climate research, where variables are viewed and modeled in isolation based upon a limited set of data, and then the “scientists” extrapolate the heck out of the limited data and come up with models that are, frankly, ridiculous.

Then they pick the most extreme outcomes from models with the worst outcomes, and call it “settled science.” It is exactly the sort of thing you see in nutrition research, for example. Creating simplistic models from limited data interpreting complex and highly interdependent systems as if they mirror the falling of a bowling ball and a feather in a vacuum.

And the results, as you can see in the real world, are quite different. Bowling balls and feathers fall at the same rate in a vacuum, but once you introduce the atmosphere a feather can “fall upwards” on a breeze while the bowling ball crashes down as predicted.

The research in question here reveals the complexity of reality: methane may trap heat, but it also prevents energy from reaching the earth. To some extent, the two effects cancel each other out.

Much more at the link.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Biden Border Disaster Rolls Out Red Carpet to the ChiComs. “Great, a rogue commie goon squad is roaming free in the Land of the Free. Perhaps the new kids on the commie block are here to train Democrats.”

THAT MEANS BIDENOMICS IS WORKING: How Americans have taken a pay cut every month since Biden took office. “For the typical family with two parents working, their combined weekly paychecks are up about $200, but that money has lost so much purchasing power from inflation that it’s as if their weekly pay has shrunk by more than $100.”

EUGENE VOLOKH: Three Amicus Briefs on the First Amendment and Coercive Government Threats in NRA v. Vullo.

THUG PARTY: Democrat Rep. Threatens Independent Journalist Matt Taibbi With Jail Time Over ‘Twitter Files’ Testimony.

DON SURBER: End the FBI Blackmail:

The FBI created a sting on a politician and held off prosecution for 7 years. Not only that but the FBI lied to him and then charged him with lying to the FBI. What a piece of blackmail the FBI would have held over a governor — if Gillum had been elected.

In this case, the FBI had evidence of what it now calls a crime in 2018 when Gillum almost became governor. No bust was made. The FBI — which has the ability to leak like a colander — said nothing to the press.

Imagine what power the bureau would have had in Florida if it could hold this over the head of a governor. Maybe it does. Who knows what dirt the FBI has in its files? The FBI tried to get Martin Luther King to kill himself once the bureau learned of his illicit affairs.

End it.

PRIORITIES: Biden Administration Moved a Lot Faster Against Proud Boys Than Chinese Communists in New York.

DOES TEN PERCENT GO TO THE BIG GUY? Biden Pledges $1 Billion to UN Climate Fund That Funnels Millions to China.

Related: Granholm: $200 Million Grant to China-Based Company Still Under Consideration.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Knee Compression Sleeve Support for Knee Pain. #CommissionEarned

THIS SEEMS PREMATURE: The West Is Preparing for Russia’s Disintegration.

The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, an independent U.S. government agency with members from the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate, and departments of defense, state, and commerce, has declared that decolonizing Russia should be a “moral and strategic objective.” The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum, comprising exiled politicians and journalists from Russia, held a meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels earlier this year and is advertising three events in different American cities this month. It has even released a map of a dismembered Russia, split into 41 different countries, in a post-Putin world, assuming he loses in Ukraine and is ousted.

Western analysts are increasingly pushing the theory that Russian disintegration is coming and that the West must not only prepare to manage any possible spillover of any ensuing civil wars but also to benefit from the fracture by luring resource-rich successor nations into its ambit. They argue that when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the West was blindsided and failed to fully capitalize on the momentous opportunity. It must now strategize to end the Russian threat once and for all, instead of providing an off-ramp to Putin.

But many others see a rump Russia as a more severe threat to global peace and security and warn against emasculating an enemy that, even when weaker than the West militarily and economically, still possesses almost 6,000 nuclear warheads, armed militias, and vast resources trapped in a sparsely populated landscape bordering China.

Handling the dissolution of the Soviet Union was dicey enough but at least the 15 constituent SSRs had relatively strong central governments. Pushing nuclear-armed Russia into collapse — or even just publicly considering it — seems foolhardy in the extreme.

OH, NO, THERE GOES TOKYO: Fed judge stomps on Bragg like Godzilla on Tokyo.

I sure hope Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg enjoyed his moment in the afterglow of the Trump indictment a couple of weeks ago.

It was a different story for the B team yesterday in front of U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil. She was entertaining the arguments Bragg’s attorney was putting forth to squash a subpoena Rep Jim Jordan had issued to one of Bragg’s former prosecutors, a fellow named Mark Pomerantz.

Well, okay. Not so much “entertaining” as “shredding” and using a machete to cut through the BS jungle. It had to be pretty uncomfortable for the B team’s lawyer Theodore Boutrous.

Good.

PROF. JACOBSON’S EQUAL PROTECTION PROJECT CHALKS UP ANOTHER WIN: VICTORY – Missouri State U To Stop Discriminating Against White Males For ‘Business Boot Camp” After Equal Protection Project Complaint.

Jacobson: “It should not have taken a complaint to the attorney general by the Equal Protection Project for MSU to acknowledge its obligation to administer the business boot camp without regard to an applicant’s race or sex.”

MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS BY DESIGN: Climate Change Terror Wrecks Gen Z’s Already-Fragile Psychology.