NO LIES DETECTED:  When I was young, I used to think it was important for smart people to have grand visions about the future in order to plan well for it and avoid disasters. Now, I think many disasters are caused by smart people trying to think too much about the future, especially the far future, getting lost in mazes of their own imagination, and pushing the gullible (including themselves) towards bad decisions on the basis of false certainties.

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WE NEED TO FIND A LOT MORE:  BREAKING: JD Vance Announces Task Force Has Uncovered $230 Billion in Fraud.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Artemis moonsuits take a dive.

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

Socialists realizing the working class isn't with them is something special. pic.twitter.com/hCmVGK0mSL

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) August 3, 2026

UPDATE (From Ed):

EVERGREEN WISDOM pic.twitter.com/ZbAjGpho61

— Sour Patch Mom ن (@sourpatchlyds) August 3, 2026

METFORMIN UPDATE: Diabetes Drug Used For More Than 60 Years Found to Unexpectedly Affect The Brain.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Fauci’s follies — time to toss the ‘science is settled’ groupthink.

Fauci’s continuous four-decade tenure, unprecedented for an NIH institute director, gave him deep institutional knowledge, relationships across government, and high public visibility.

After so long in office, he had connections everywhere — and he used them with relish.

People who crossed him were unlikely to get funded; people who pleased him had a much better shot.

No wonder he saw himself as the embodiment of science itself.

But science isn’t something that people are; it’s something people do.. It’s a system in which hypotheses are tested, supported or falsified, and developed further.

And allowing one person, with all his human biases and weaknesses, to hold so much power over science for so long can only do that system harm.

Read the whole thing, as they say.

HMM: Hair Loss May Be an Overlooked Side Effect of Ozempic and Mounjaro.

PUTIN’S QUAGMIRE: More Fuel Tankers, Warehouses and Oil Refineries Are Burning in Russia.

JASON GUMP: Cambridge professor made impossible claim he was on Seven Up.

Now footage of a talk Prof [Jason] Arday gave in October 2022 has re-emerged, revealing his claim that he appeared as a child on Seven Up.

He told the University of Bath’s Race Equality Taskforce: “I was part of a programme, actually, which – it doesn’t really exist any more – but it was called Seven Up at the time.

“And Seven Up is basically when they follow you over the duration of your life, so they follow you at [ages] 7, 14, 21. I was pulled out of the project when I was 14.”

During the same talk, he also claimed: “I had just turned 18 when I learnt to read and write.”

Seven Up was the first episode in a decades-long TV series created by Granada Productions for ITV.

The series follows 14 people’s lives at seven-year intervals, beginning when they were seven years of age. The final instalment is expected to be broadcast later this year.

The inaugural episode was broadcast in 1964, meaning its subjects were born in 1957. Subsequent programmes have been titled 21 Up, 28 Up and so on as the participants have grown older.

The BBC also commissioned a spin-off series titled Up: Millennium Generation. This began in 2000, also featuring a group of seven-year-olds. At the time, Prof Arday would have been 15.

A BBC spokesman confirmed that Prof Arday was not involved with the Up: Millennium Generation films.

Like Forrest Gump, or his prototype, Woody Allen’s earlier Leonard Zelig character, Arday has made claims of being seemingly everywhere, apparently not considering that he’d eventually be caught, or that he’d be too entrenched in academia for anything to happen to him if he was. And he may be right — over to you, Cambridge: Cambridge Can — but Evidently Won’t — Catch Jason Arday.

UPDATE:

A source close to Mr. Driscoll adds that in 2011 at the Freakanomics blog, Fred Shapiro wrote:

The Yale Book of Quotations traces the proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” back to 1989. Subsequent to the publication of the YBQ, I found that Toni Morrison was quoted in Essence, July 1981: “I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.” The forthcoming Yale Book of Modern Proverbs notes: “The saying is often referred to as an ‘African’ or a ‘West African’ proverb; however, no prototype from Africa has been discovered — though several sayings from that continent do urge cooperation in child rearing and other enterprises.”

Regarding Hillary Clinton’s 1995 book popularizing the quote, a source close to the late P.J. O’Rourke famously wrote that the title is “an ancient African proverb which seems to have its origins in the ancient African kingdom of Hallmarkcardia.”

READER FAVORITE: Toniiq Tribulus Terrestris for Men. #CommissionEarned

THEY’RE THE POWERHOUSES OF THE CELL: Mighty mitochondria: Scientists uncover new role for fighting bacterial infections, including drug-resistant superbugs.

DO THEY THINK IT’S STILL 2020? THERE’S PLENTY OF OIL. Ferrari Thinks Biofuels Can Help Keep Combustion Alive. And “climate change” as an issue is already fading.

WELL, HE’S RIGHT: Boy George brushes off criticism from LGBTQ activists after pro-Israel stance, says Hamas wants to kill ‘queers.’

COVERING THE IMPORTANT NEWS:

CLEAN YOUR DISHWASHER: Affresh Dishwasher Cleaner. #CommissionEarned

WHAT CLIMATE CRISIS?

Another great example of man-made global warming … placing thermometers next to heat-generating solar panels. https://t.co/i1rxv7NAXs

— John Shewchuk (@_ClimateCraze) August 3, 2026

MY NEPHEW HAS AN AR-15 IN .458 SOCOM. IT’S IMPRESSIVE. Ammo: .458 SOCOM.

A RESCUE MISSION FOR A RESCUE MISSION: Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission.

YOU DON’T SAY: Dr. Ashish Jha on COVID-19: ‘It probably was a lab leak.’ “Former Biden White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, tells Dana Bash, ‘When I went into the White House, my view was this was almost surely a natural outbreak, maybe a lab leak. Based on information I learned and based on information I’ve seen, I have come to conclude that it is more likely to have been a lab leak.'”

I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: Javier Milei Just Proposed a Great Idea. Every Government Should Follow His Lead. “Essentially, if the Argentine national government runs a fiscal deficit for several months in a row, the Congress receives a warning that it has a matter of weeks to fix it. If it doesn’t hit the deadline, the ‘shackle’ activates automatically, and the political class will be the ones impacted.”

KEEP YOUR TEETH CLEAN: Plaque Remover for Teeth. #CommissionEarned

PODCAST: Hefty enrollment drop clashes with Colorado school funding.

Colorado public schools are projected to lose roughly 16,000 students heading into the 2026-27 school year, part of a continuing enrollment decline that has significant implications for how state education dollars are distributed.

In a recent episode of Independence Institute’s* Learning Curve podast, hosts Erin Brantley and Ross Izard lay out the enrollment decline in the context of Colorado’s school finance system.

Because state funding is closely tied to the number of students attending schools, declining enrollment ultimately means fewer dollars for affected districts.

The decline comes as Colorado is working through major changes to school funding. Lawmakers rewrote a decades-old funding formula in 2024, and made additional adjustments through the 2026 School Finance Act. The new system remains a work in progress, further complicating funding calculations.

What I wasn’t able to find out is whether the enrollment decline is due to remigration, homeschooling, or whether Colorado has gone so far left that we’re not having enough kids anymore.

MISOGYNY IS IN OUR DNA!!! Female mammoths were cavemen’s preferred prey.

COMMUNITY NOTES FOR THE WIN:

The inconvenient truth. pic.twitter.com/P8QmsX5GcA

— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) August 3, 2026

If you’re on mobile — or like me, you sometimes forget your reading glasses — the Note reads, “The monument in this image is located in Zanzibar and depicts one of the country’s last slave markets, which was run by the Arabs and closed by the British in 1873.”