THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Which is the more misleading, belief without evidence, or refusal to believe in presence of overwhelming evidence? If there is an irrational faith which persists without any facts to support it, there is an irrational lack of faith which persists spite of the accumulation of facts which should produce it; and we may doubt whether the last does not lead to worse results than the first.

The average legislator, equally with the average citizen, has no faith whatever in the beneficent working of social forces, notwithstanding the almost infinite illustrations of this beneficent working. He persists in thinking of a society as a manufacture and not as a growth: blind to the fact that the vast and complex organization by which its life is carried on, has resulted from the spontaneous cooperations of men pursuing their private ends.”

― Herbert Spencer

BIRTHDAYS:

1745 Johann Peter Salomon, German violinist, composer, conductor, and musical promoter (Hadyn). Romance for violin and strings in D major

1805 Angelina Grimké, American abolitionist, political activist, women’s rights advocate, and supporter of the women’s suffrage movement.

1901 René Dubos, French-American microbiologist and author

1902 Ansel Adams, American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.

1912 Pierre Boulle, French author (The Bridge over the River Kwai, Planet of the Apes)

1921 Joseph A. Walker, American World War II pilot, experimental physicist, NASA test pilot, and astronaut who was the first person to fly an airplane to space.

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