News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
BETHESDA, MD—Concerned citizens are raising questions about some experiments conducted by Dr. Fauci’s NIH, including one where puppies were tortured to death, their vocal cords severed to mute their screams. In an interview, Fauci said that anyone who attacks puppy torture is attacking science itself.
“Puppy torture is science,” said Fauci angrily. “So is grafting baby scalps onto lab mice and engineering viruses that kill millions! I AM SCIENCE! I AM GOD!!!” Fauci then threw back his head and laughed maniacally at the sky.
Fauci insisted that his experiments are “super important”, and “real science.” He also defended some of his other experiments, such as the “Kitten Drowning Experiment”, the “Orphan Punching Experiment”, and the “Piranha Kiddie Pool Experiment.”
According to several sources, millions of progressives have quietly thrown away their Fauci pillows, candles, and plush dolls.
Go here to read the rest. Fauci and his colleagues give mad scientists a bad name. This combined with the news that Fauci lied on multiple occasions to Congress, and the NIH was funding gain of function research in the lab in Wuhan, China will, I hope, end the Fauci cult on the Left and, hopefully, he will be prosecuted and end his days in prison. (You can bet that bribery will likely be found to have entered into all this.) That should become a Republican campaign promise in 2022 and 2024. Go here to Not the Bee to read all about it. Of course, all of this could have been found out last year if we actually had a media instead of a group of propagandists owned body and soul by the Left.
Hungry sand flies and MSM moguls locked down for the duration.
That is a humanitarian effort we can support. “Let’s go Brandon.”
Here’s a suggestion:
A. Incorporate research services in federal departments and agencies which are staffed with federal employees and financed with tax money. Their purpose would be to further the institutional mission of the agency in question. They could tap outside expertise by offering term-limited fellowships which would include an indemnity for fellows’ regular employer for the loss of their services.
B. Incorporate research services which operate in areas which require assembling a great deal of capital (e.g. high energy physics, space exploration) or which might require some inter-governmental co-operation (e.g. polar exploration). Again, staff them with public employees and temporary fellows and finance them out of the treasury.
C. Incorporate statistical collection services staffed with public employees and financed out of the treasury.
D. Incorporate crown jewels which operate the same way but which incorporate education of the general public into their book of business (e.g. the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Smithsonian, &c). Again, these could tap outside expertise through fellowships.
At the state level, do as follows.
E. Each of the foregoing with reference to the state government
and
F. Institute a research endowment at each public tertiary institution. The income from each endowment would finance research grants for faculty of the institution in question. The foundational endowments would be created via a special state bond issue approved in a referendum. An institution would be assigned shares and it’s portion of the bond issue would be the ratio of the shares assigned it to the sum of shares assigned to all institutions. The shares assigned it would be equal to the institutions FTE multiplied by a fudge factor. Institutions of a given type would have a different fudge factor (say 1.0 for research universities, 0.8 for stand-alone professional schools, 0.5 for 4-year teaching institutions, 0.2 for two-year institutions). Now and again, you could have a statewide initiative (consequent to petition campaigns) to have another bond issue so distributed to add to the endowments. You could also divide the state into a set of catchments and have initiatives in said catchments for bond issues to benefit the institutions in the catchment. The responsibility for issuing the bonds would be apportioned among county governments, and the proceeds of the issue would be distributed among local colleges according the the method delineated above.
G. Not one dollar out of a state or federal treasury is appropriated by the legislature for grants to be distributed to any person with an institutional address or any corporation public, philanthropic, or commercial / industrial. Fauci, Collins et al should NEVER have been permitted to run a patronage mill at public expense. See the late Phillip Johnson of Boalt Hall on the effect of federal funding on scientific discourse (something he learned about as legal counsel to Peter Duesberg).
Watch the left demand a new government program costing trillions and they’ll call it “Caninecare”
The theme? It’s for the puppies.”
I think the Bad Cat is on the mark here. The revelations this week that NIH did in fact fund gain of function research put Fauci at the end of his usefulness. Time for the Cuomo treatment in hopes that it stops the inquiries.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/is-beaglegate-just-a-pretext-to-get