THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

— Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain

BIRTHDAYS:

1622 Paul Puget, French artist.

1679 Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bohemian composer, born in Louňovice, Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Hypocondrie

1758 Noah Webster, American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author.

1854 Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright.

1886 Armin T. Wegner, German medic, photographer, writer, and civil rights activist (documented the Armenian Genocide)

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HERE’S SOME RECREATIONAL READING FOR THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

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

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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