Thought for the day:

"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."

— John Stuart Mill

 

Birthdays:

1812 William Vincent Wallace: Nocturne (9:14)

1870 Louis Bachelier

1903 James Franklin Hyde 

1915 J. C. R. Licklider

1921 Astor Piazzolla: Libertango, and La Muerte del Ángel

1952 Douglas Adams

 

MISCELLANY:

 

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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