“the most urgent issue on humanity’s plate is whether Putin will go nuclear in Ukraine?”
Hardly.
That was just a stupid little throwaway line. In fact, it was just an imaginary self-conversation some hypothetical member of The Skeptical Inquirer crowd (whoever that is) might have...completely irrelevant to the point of this article.
The Skeptical Inquirer crowd will moan that their comrade has tumbled down the rabbit hole: Farewell, Eric, we hardly knew ye! Such a reaction evades a far more interesting and compelling question: Why is Weinstein exploring this rabbit hole? And why is he diving into it now — at a time one might reasonably conclude that the most urgent issue on humanity’s plate is whether Putin will go nuclear in Ukraine? Weinstein, after all, has provided occasional commentary on that evolving nightmare himself, urging people to pay attention to it.