THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”To have displeased evil and ignorant men is the sure sign of genius and virtue…”

— Petrarch

BIRTHDAYS:

1291 Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet. “Firmissime fidem / Alleluya”, and Vos qui admiramini

1632 Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.

1711 Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and scholar.

1795 John Keats, English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

1847 Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and electrical engineer.

1920 Dick Francis, British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England.

MISCELLANEOUS:

PETR BECKMANN VINDICATED. Big Tech Is Paving the Way for a Nuclear Breakthrough

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.”