“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

― Plutarch

BIRTHDAYS:

1677 Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist and inventor (first person to measure blood pressure)

1730 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian military officer and a Founding Father of the United States

1743 Marquis de Condorcet, French philosopher and mathematician.

1783 Samuel Prout, British water color painter

1795 Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer. Flute concerto (Final)

MISCELLANY:

THIS IS NOT OVER. Oral Argument in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Health Freedom Defense Fund et al. v. Alberto Carvalho

“Due to the conflict between the recent case law just noted and Jacobson—the latter made in an era when women could not vote and Jim Crow laws existed and SCOTUS had sanctioned the sterilization of a woman deemed too unintelligent to bear children—the rights of Americans today are suspended in limbo.”

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

Yes, the following is the website for the Bulgarian Association for Pathology (BPAP). As near as I can tell, the Canadian website was taken down.

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