“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”

― Milton Friedman

BIRTHDAYS:

1684 Jean-Antoine Watteau, French Rococo painter

1700 Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor

1713 Johann Ludwig Krebs, German organist and composer. Prelude and Fugue in C major

1738 Benjamin West, Anglo-American painter

1813 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer best known for his operas. Nabucco – Hebrew Slaves Chorus, and Aida – Triumphal March

1892 Earle Dickson, American inventor (Band-Aid)

1921 James Clavell, British-American novelist

1957 Atlas Shrugged, novel by Ayn Rand published on this day in 1957.

MISCELLANY:

A CHILLING THOUGHT. Israel’s intelligence failure is a warning for America’s politicized agencies

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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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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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