Thought for the Day:

“If anything, silencing people can make them even more passionate about their “forbidden” opinions. When you do that, it just solidifies your position as the unreasonable, domineering enemy, and theirs as the victim and martyr. It might discourage them from ever wanting to engage with anyone with your opinion ever again. It’s the equivalent of telling someone who’s upset to “calm down”: it only makes it worse.”

― Kat Timpf

Birthdays:

1696 Johann Caspar Vogler, composer. Jesu, Leiden, Pein und Tod

1707 Carl Linnaeus, botanist, explorer and the Father of Taxonomy.

1710 François Gaspard Adam, rococo sculptor.

1754 Andrea Appiani, painter.

1908 John Bardeen, physicist and engineer.

1917 Edward Norton Lorenz, mathematician and meteorologist.

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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