THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“It could be that the climate alarmists have answers to rebut these critics and their data, but if so, they are not showing it. Rather than engaging in scientific debate, they have evaded it, choosing instead to try to stop dissenting publications and cut off the funding of their opponents. That is not the way to do science. That is the way to do fraud.”

― Robert Zubrin

BIRTHDAYS:

1503 Il Bronzino, Italian Florentine painter in Mannerist style

1690 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter and cartoonist

1715 Girolamo Abos, Maltese composer. Pelopide

1790 August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician

MISCELLANY:

THE FOURTH ESTATE. Fear and Loathing on the Potomac (August 15, 2002)

“Once upon a time there was a colorful governor of Arkansas named Jeff Davis. He was the best natural politician Arkansas ever produced, and a certain famous successor studied him closely. Jeff Davis was very good at knocking newspapers, and they were very good at knocking him. He was fond of telling audiences about his little boy.

He’s a wonderful little boy. His mother and I love him more than we love life itself. We have such big dreams for him. If it turns out, in the fullness and passage of time, that that little fella has above average intelligence, and we certainly think he does, we hope to make a preacher of him, to send him out to preach the Gospel, to lead sinners to God.

And if it turns out that he has just average intelligence, well, that’s all right, too, and we’ll just send him to law school. God has His uses for all of us, even for lawyers.

But if it turns out that that little boy just doesn’t have a lick of sense, God will give us the grace to live with that, too. We’ll just send him downtown to be the editor of the morning newspaper.”

IS IT SAFE? The Cult of Safety Explodes

“By worshiping at the altar of the safe, we denigrate, delay, and deny the myriad possibilities for human advancement that are inherent in the concept of risk.”

DON’T PANIC – JUST BE AWARE. A potentially fatal mystery illness in dogs is spreading in the US. It starts with a cough

ATTENTION SPACE SETTLERS. SpaceX delays launch of its giant Starship rocket to swap out a part

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, November 17 – 26

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

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

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