THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

— H.L. Mencken

BIRTHDAYS:

1483 Hans Buchner, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Ravensburg, Holy Roman Empire. Fundamentum: Quem terra.

1645 Aert de Gelder, Dutch painter.

1685 Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer and harpsichordist (La Silvia), born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire. Sonata in a minor K 61, and Sonata in la min. K 175

1843 Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian painter.

MISCELLANEOUS:

MENSCH: A PERSON OF INTEGRITY AND HONOR. “I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes.”

I REALLY COULD HAVE USED THIS WHEN I BROKE UP WITH MY FIANCE. UCLA Scientists Discover Protein That Repairs Heart Damage

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.”