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

JASON GUMP: Charity casts doubts on volunteering record of Cambridge professor.

A charity has cast doubt on claims about volunteering made by the Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row.

Prof Jason Arday has listed among his achievements “installing water points” in South America and West Africa with the charity WaterAid.

WaterAid, however, says it never sends volunteers abroad.

It is the latest blow to Prof Arday’s credibility following questions over alleged plagiarism and apparently bogus claims he has made about ultra-distance running and fundraising.

His memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, is set to be published at the end of this month, with a publicity tour of the UK and America to promote it.

His editors must having Biden-level aneurysms right now.

ICYMI:

The inconvenient truth. pic.twitter.com/P8QmsX5GcA

— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) August 3, 2026

THE CENSORS CALLED IT “ORDER.” JOHN QUINCY ADAMS CALLED IT A GAG: Bob Crawford explains how a former president returned to Congress, defended Americans’ right to petition, outmaneuvered the slave power, and proved that public service matters more than political rank.

CHRIS QUEEN: CNN’s Ella Langley Blind Spot Exposes Its Coastal Bubble.

She’s talented, gorgeous, and doesn’t mouth woke platitudes — so of course CNN doesn’t know what to make of her.

INTEGRITY IS ALL ACADEMIA HAS. AND YET.

Dozens of Duke University academics signed a letter declaring the lacrosse team guilty of rape allegations made against them by a black stripper. When the prosecuting attorney was disbarred for misconduct based on his conduct during the trial and the NC attorney general declared… https://t.co/STb0iTJ1fS

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 2, 2026

THE FIRST ONE IS RECOMMENDED READING FROM SOMEONE I TRUST, SHE MENTIONS HOW MUCH IT REMINDS HER OF CARTELS:  Books I Have Read So Far This Year.

IT’S GOING TO BE A CRAPSHOOT:  Trump’s Upcoming Vegas Visit Tells Us a Lot About the Midterms.

UNDER BIDEN AND OBAMA THE DEMS HAVE FILLED JUDGESHIPS WITH RELIABLE PARTY HACKS:  Oh, So Get a Load of the Judge Who Tossed Trump’s NJ Lawsuit Over Its Voter Database.

JOE MANCHIN DIDN’T PLAY THAT [CRAP] WHILE IN OFFICE AND AIN’T PLAYING IT IN RETIREMENT:  Former West Virginia Senator Wasn’t Playing These Games With a CBS News Host Over Socialism.

FINGERS CROSSED:  If it is happening, we now have a rough timetable when SpaceX will announce its new spaceport facility in Louisiana.

EUROPE STILL HAS STOPPING POINTS?  The Ceuta invasion as a tipping point.

BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Inside New York’s medical fraud capital where often empty senior centers bill Medicaid $100M-a-year for patients.

LORD LOVE A DUCK. THAT AGAIN?  Maryland Democrats begin advancing redistricting constitutional amendment.

THESE THINGS TAKE TIME, BUT I UNDERSTAND THE IMPATIENCE:  Time for Covid prosecutions and nothing less.

SURE THING. I BELIEVE THEM. LIKE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US WASN’T AFRAID OF DEBANKING UNDER THE AUTO PEN:  Trump accounts were closed in 2021 due to concerns over possible money laundering, Capital One says.

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.

X-cancel.

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.