THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.”

― Michael Crichton

BIRTHDAYS:

1684 Francesco Durante, Neapolitan composer. Concerto for strings No. 2 in G minor.

1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival, he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major BWV 1048

1732 Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer of the Classical period. His contributions to musical form have led him to be called “Father of the Symphony” and “Father of the String quartet”. Symphony No. 101 “The Clock”

1809 Edward FitzGerald, British poet, writer, and translator (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam).

1835 John La Farge, American painter

1844 Andrew Lang, Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and anthropologist (Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books).

1854 Dugald Clerk, Scottish engineer and inventor (1st 2-stroke motorcycle engine).

1905 Gerald Pearson, American physicist and inventor of the solar cell.

1929 Liz Claiborne, American fashion designer and businesswoman.

MISCELLANY:

MAYBE WE’LL WIND UP LIVING IN THE BEST OF TIMES. XAI and X Will Release Grok 2 Next Week and It is Claimed to Surpass GPT4 and Claude 3

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, March 29 – April 7

REMEMBER:

THIS WAS PUBLISED IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

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