THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Be as decent as you can. Don’t believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don’t have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

― Ambrose Bierce

BIRTHDAYS:

1776 Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German Romantic writer, judge and composer. Ouverture Undine

1848 Vasily Surikov, Russian painter

1925 Maria Tallchief, America’s first major prima ballerina, heading up the New York City ballet under choreographer George Balanchine from 1948. Rudolph Nureyev and Maria Tallchief – ‘Flower Festival in Genzano’

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