“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

― Carl Sagan

BIRTHDAYS:

1791 Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer

1873 Amilcare Zanella, Italian composer and conductor. “Tempo di Minuetto” Op. 29

1888 T. S. Eliot, Poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.

1898 George Gershwin, American composer and pianist. Summertime (Porgy and Bess)

1932 Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident.

MISCELLANY:

HUH? I MUST HAVE BLINKED. Where Have All the Lanternflies Gone?

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

RELATED. Nuremberg Code

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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