THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Problems worthy of attack
prove their worth by fighting back.”

― Piet Hein, Grooks 1

BIRTHDAYS:

1706 Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (Institutions de Physique; translation of Newton’s Principia)

1749 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer. “Vè che matta, maledetta!”, and Sonata II – Valentino Bontempi

1797 Joseph Henry, American scientist and pioneer of electromagnetism

1807 John Greenleaf Whittier, American Quaker poet

1853 Émile Roux, Physician and Founder of Immunology

1920 Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist

1929 William Safire, American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter.

MISCELLANY:

BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE. Study finds clinicians rank patient views as least important in diagnosis

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky At a Glance, December 15 – 24

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

RELATED. Nuremberg Code