“To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.”

― Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Birthdays:

1766 Jacob Perkins, American inventor (father of the refrigerator).

1802 Thomas Davenport, American inventor (invented 1st commercial electric motor).

1819 Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine.

1839 Carl Baermann, clarinetist and composer from Munich, Germany. Etude in Bb Minor, No. 47

1879 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist. Siciliana (from “The Tree of Life”)

1945 Dean Koontz, American sci-fi author.

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FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

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