THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

— Thomas Sowell

BIRTHDAYS:

1692 Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch nobleman who was a diplomat as well as a composer. Sonata 3 (g minor)

1734 Daniel Boone, American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

1739 Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer. Oboenkonzert G-Dur (19:19)

1815 George Boole, a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen’s College, Cork in Ireland.

1837 Émile Bayard, French artist and illustrator.

1929 Amar Bose, American electrical engineer, academic (M.I.T.), sound engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur (Bose Corporation).

MISCELLANEOUS:

NEW YORK IS THE SAME STATE THAT OUTLAWED FAMILY MEMBERS FROM VISITING THEIR DYING LOVED ONES DURING THE COVID LOCKDOWN. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation raided a man’s home to seize and then euthanize his internet-famous pet squirrel, Peanut.

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.”