THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”The duration of the life of men may be considerably increased. It would be true progress to go back to the simple dishes of our ancestors. … Progress would consist in simplifying many sides of the lives of civilised people.”

— Élie Metchnikoff

BIRTHDAYS:

1735 John Adams, American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801.

1741 Angelica Kauffmann, Swiss Neoclassical painter, born in Chur, League of God’s House.

1839 Alfred Sisley, French impressionist painter.

1843 Henri Regnault, French painter.

1900 Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald “for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye”.

1914 Marius Flothuis, Dutch composer, (Kleine Suite for 12 Harps; Espressioni Cordiali), artistic director (Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1955–74), musicologist (Mozart), and music critic. Sonata da camera opus 42 (1951) for flute and harp

MISCELLANEOUS:

THE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT IS ONGOING. The Most Devastating Report So Far

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.”