In News & Views, I strive to alert my readers to recent events and happenings that I don’t think they are likely to read about in the mainstream media. I have six items for you today.
1. No More Gain-of-Function Research?
I touched on “gain-of-function” research several times in the pieces I wrote on COVID. It was an issue Rand Paul repeatedly questioned Anthony Fauci about during Congressional hearings. Although Fauci flatly stated under oath that gain-of-function research was not being done by any US governmental institution, we know now that he was lying. Not only was it going on in labs around the world supported by US tax dollars, it was the research in Wuhan, China, that made the COVID-19 virus so contagious. And it was a doctored virus that escaped the facility in Wuhan that directly led to the pandemic.
If you are under the impression that this is just another politicized nothing story, click here and here for two articles that will give you a sense of the magnitude of the danger and the need for some sort of national and international protocols for ending it.
2. The Political Roots of Harvey Weinstein’s Retrial
This is an interesting take on Harvey Weinstein’s retrial. The writer, Kat Rosenfield, points out how the online right adopted Weinstein as symbol of perceived liberal hypocrisy and argues that the left’s handling of the #MeToo movement and its inconsistencies contributed to this shift.
3. Like We Didn’t Know: Gender Transition Surgeries Are Not Good!
A new US government report indicates that there is very little evidence that “pediatric” gender transitions help the children that undergo them, while there is mounting evidence that such “care” is harmful – both physically and mentally. In fact, there has never been a significant study of “gender affirming care” that justified allowing the irreversible procedure on minors. This article questions why it took so long for the US government, its health institutions, and its medical schools to recognize the obvious truth.
4. Federal Investigation into Illinois School District
This is one of those stories that illustrates just how demented the Biden administration and the leftist media became during the height of their romance with the BLM movement and Critical Race Theory.
5. Critique of Harvard’s Antisemitism Report
In response to widespread criticism that Harvard had a history of antisemitism, the university supposedly did an investigation of the charge and recently issued a report. In this piece, Rabbi David Wolpe makes the case that it was “superficial” and “inadequate” and suggests that there is no real commitment to ridding the school of antisemitism because of “deep-seated ideological issues” within the faculty that are not going away.
6. The Wit and Wisdom of The Donald
On May 1, at the University of Alabama, President Trump delivered a commencement address that was, according to Matthew Continetti writing in The Free Press, “more revealing about his mind” and how he thinks than any speech since taking office. In the article, Continetti gives a 10-point distillation of Trump’s personal philosophy.
