THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”

— H.L. Mencken

BIRTHDAYS:

1634 Luca Giordano, Italian painter and printmaker, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire.

1697 Giovanni Canaletto, Italian painter (Regatta on the Grand Canal) and printmaker

1706 Baldassare Galuppi, Venetian composer. Sonata in Re minore

MISCELLANEOUS:

ONE SIZE DOESN’T FIT ALL? El Niño Southern Oscillation caused spike in 2023 temperatures, study finds

SOME LIGHT READING FOR THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

RECENTLY PUBLISHED (2006). Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

WHAT IF ONE SIZE DOESN’T FIT ALL?: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

RELATED. Nuremberg Code

“The Nuremberg Military Tribunal’s decision in the case of the United States v Karl Brandt et al. includes what is now called the Nuremberg Code, a ten point statement delimiting permissible medical experimentation on human subjects.”