THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”

― Thomas Paine

BIRTHDAYS:

1703 Carlmann Kolb, German composer and priest. Certamen aonium: Praeludium primum.

1737 Thomas Paine, English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary (Common Sense, and The American Crisis).

1846 Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist

1850 Lawrence Hargrave, English-born aviation pioneer and inventor (box kite)

1860 Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time.

1862 Frederick Delius, British composer. La Calinda

1901 Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and inventor (perfected commercial practical cathode ray tube)

MISCELLANY:

WILL THIS HAVE ANY AFFECT ON THEIR FUNDING? NO. NEXT QUESTION.
NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data

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