THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

― Isaac Asimov

BIRTHDAYS:

106 BC Cicero, Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.

1680 Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco worker

1786 Friedrich Schneider, German keyboardist, composer, and conductor. Herr, erhöre mein Gebet, Psalm 143

1789 Carl Gustav Carus, German physiologist & painter

1793 Lucretia Mott, American Quaker, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and social reformer.

1835 Larkin Goldsmith Mead, American sculptor

1892 J. R. R. Tolkien, English writer and philologist.

1909 Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian and pianist

MISCELLANY:

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