THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

— Michael Crichton

BIRTHDAYS:

1762 Samuel Morey, American inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents.

1773 Pietro Generali, Italian composer, born in Masserano, Kingdom of Sardinia. “Giusto cielo” da Adelina, and “Che grato istante” da Elena e Olfredo

1942 Michael Crichton, American author, screenwriter and filmmaker.

1959 Weird Al Yankovic, American comedy musician, writer, and actor.

MISCELLANEOUS:

IT’S A SHAME THIS ISN’T ALLOWED IN THE UNITED STATES. China – 11 Nukes Per Year and Six in Some Locations

THAT’S STRANGE. I WAS TOLD BEING VACCINATED WOULD PREVENT ME FROM CONTRACTING OR TRANSMITTING COVID-19. New York Supreme Court reinstates all employees fired for being unvaccinated, orders backpay

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.”