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Time to Stop the ‘Doomsday Clock’
Wall Street Journal ^ | Jan. 22, 2020 | Lawrence M. Krauss

Posted on 01/25/2020 9:57:03 AM PST by McGruff

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is resetting its “Doomsday Clock,” which has stood still since 2018 at two minutes to midnight. I was a member of the Bulletin’s Board of Sponsors for a dozen years and chaired it from 2009 through 2018, and I think it’s time to retire the clock....

Psychologist Steven Pinker argues—and the bulletin admits—that the clock is anything but a scientific instrument. In Mr. Pinker’s view, the annual announcement is a publicity stunt that demeans the scientific community and makes the world seem more dangerous than it actually is.

The clock is a publicity stunt—and a successful one. That was the point. The public hardly ever debates the ever-present danger of a world with 10,000 nuclear weapons. People would rather not think about it...

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doomsdayclock; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; stevenpinker
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To: McGruff

Who is making money off the Clock?


21 posted on 01/25/2020 11:07:05 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: McGruff
Psychologist Steven Pinker argues—and the bulletin admits—that the clock is anything but a scientific instrument.

And what precisely is the counterargument?

22 posted on 01/25/2020 11:09:55 AM PST by edwinland
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To: McGruff
It moved forward in 1953, after the U.S. and the Soviet Union developed the hydrogen bomb, or in 1974, when missiles with multiple warheads became a reality.

Uhm. No it didn't.

People "moved" it.

Also this lame excuse for a Phd doesn't even know the difference between "and" and "or".

23 posted on 01/25/2020 11:11:46 AM PST by edwinland
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To: Fiji Hill

And just what’s so awful about Midnight anyways?

The Clock struck 12?...Oooo scary!!

Now when it sticks 13, then I’ll start to worry.


24 posted on 01/25/2020 11:23:03 AM PST by Gasshog
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To: McGruff

I think the folks who run the nuclear clock, set the clock forward early.

They sprang forward about an hour.


25 posted on 01/25/2020 11:34:24 AM PST by DoughtyOne (It's a New Year, and time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll <hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: DannyTN

lol


26 posted on 01/25/2020 11:35:58 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: McGruff
the annual announcement is a publicity stunt that demeans the scientific community

As a statistician who once worked extensively with the scientific community, I think this clock is not what should be worrying scientists. Their own conduct, politicizing research, is what demeans the community.

27 posted on 01/25/2020 12:13:20 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: McGruff

Anyone who takes this seriously is a moron.


28 posted on 01/25/2020 1:34:07 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: SaveFerris

The “My Work is Done Here” meme is hilarious. Do you know where the background pic came from?


29 posted on 01/25/2020 1:44:05 PM PST by upchuck (I think it's pretty cool how Chinese people made a language entirely out of tattoos. ~h/t Bill in KY)
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To: DoodleBob

Eddie Lives!


30 posted on 01/25/2020 1:53:39 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual and political hemlock)
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To: Gasshog

I for one just don’t give a damn.

I probably have 10 or 12 clocks in this house, if even one of them shows the correct time I would be amazed.

It’s day time when I can see my dogs outside in the morning, it’s night time when I can’t see them.

It’s time to get to work when I have had my morning coffee, it’s time to stop when I am afraid I will run over one of those dumb muts in the dark with the tractor.

GOD will bring doomsday when he is damn good and ready, not according to some assholes clock.


31 posted on 01/25/2020 4:59:13 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: upchuck

;)

No. Just saw it on FR a few years ago and added it to the archive.

It totally and accurately represents the Obama administration. This guy was so obvious it’s painful.


32 posted on 01/25/2020 10:53:40 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: dp0622

Good one...


33 posted on 01/26/2020 3:52:46 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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