THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

— Buddha

BIRTHDAYS:

1566 Julien Perrichon, French composer and lutenist of the late Renaissance. Courante.

1598 Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter.

1706 Carlo Cecere, Italian composer, born in Grottole, Kingdom of Naples. concerto per due flauti,violini e b.c.

1728 James Cook, British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

1785 Frederich Kalkbrenner, German-French pianist and composer, born in Kassel, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, Holy Roman Empire. La Solitudine opus 46

1867 Marie Curie, Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

1878 Lise Meitner, Austrian-Swedish physicist (discovered the nuclear fission of uranium)

MISCELLANEOUS:

HANNAH ARENDT, PLEASE CALL YOUR OFFICE. The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide

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

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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.”statement delimiting permissible medical experimentation on human subjects.”