THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

― Theodore Dalrymple

BIRTHDAYS:

1609 John Suckling, English Cavalier poet, dramatist and courtier (invented cribbage)

1696 Johann Melchior Molter, German composer. Concerto for Clarinet in D No.2 D major, MWV 6.38

1702 Jean-Pierre Guignon [Giovanni Pietro Ghignone], Italian-French violinist and composer. Andante from op.2, no.4, and Les Sauvages, and La Furstemberg, and Adagio & Allegro from op.2, no.3

1775 Charles Lamb, British critic/poet/essayist

1795 Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French Romantic painter, etcher and sculptor

1890 Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.

1898 Bertolt Brecht, German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

1902 Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December 1947.

1927 Leontyne Price, American spinto soprano who was the first African American soprano to receive international acclaim.

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