Thought for the Day:

“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had. Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What are relevant are reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.”

― Michael Crichton

Birthdays:

1791 Jan Václav Voříšek: Sonata quasi una fantasia b-moll op.20

1888 Irving Berlin: Putting on the Ritz

1823 Alfred Stevens

1824 Jean-Léon Gérôme

1827 Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

1854 Ottmar Mergenthaler

1930 Edsger Dijkstra

1946 Robert Jarvik

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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