If anyone or anything ever deserved an Ethics Alarms “Bite Me!,” it’s the ridiculous Doomsday Clock and the pompous, biased, fear-mongering scientists who set it.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set the clock each year since 1947, and to say it does not have a sterling record, whatever standards one uses, would be an understatement. Well, I’ll take that back: they have a sterling record for being wrong. Still, once again the thing is in the news. “The ‘”‘Doomsday Clock'”‘ — a symbolic clock that supposedly represents how close humanity is to global catastrophe according to “experts” — “has moved closer to midnight,” ABC News tells us. “The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday that the clock is now 85 seconds to midnight, with midnight representing the apocalypse.”
That’s the closest its ever been! AAAAIIIIIIIIII!!!
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Ethics Alarms 
A visit to their website is instructive. Have a look at the “about us” section. You’ll find that genuine “atomic scientists” aren’t exactly well represented amongst the lawyers, finance types, marketeers, fundraisers, former journalists, and non-physicist academics. https://thebulletin.org/about-us/leadership/
If they’ve been so wrong so many times and for so long, they’re probably wrong about it being midnight. It’s probably just lunch time.
Indeed. Midnight where? Toyko? Moscow? Instanbul? London? New York? Chicago? Denver? San Francisco? That makes a difference because if it is midnight in London, then it is 4:00 p.m. in San Francisco, meaning we have lots of time to fix purported problems.
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When you’re right, you’re right. They are embarrassing to science.
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Check out this hilarious University of Chicago (!) physicist/professor explaining how they come up with the setting. I thought of Jack when I stumbled across this yesterday.
https://x.com/joelwberry/status/2016329819873542601?s=46
It’s literally the intelligentsia version of rioting.
Progressive rioters show up when a Republican is president rioting against things they say home for when a Democrat is president.
It’s by design.
It’s propaganda.
It’s intentionally civilization undermining.
It’s despicable.
And like all lefties, they’re all cock-sure and never, ever in doubt. Why? Because they’re smarter than everyone else!
And who did they pay to design the clock? And, the maximum time until the end of the world is fifteen minutes? Three hours and fifteen minutes?
The general liberal trend has been to move from one cause/crisis to another. Alinsky’s rules for radicals dictate that they have to keep the pressure on, but when one tactic starts to drag on too long, then they have to gin up another controversy. I wonder if the sudden emergence of the Doomsday Clock was to distract from the fact that Pretti had been involved in multiple altercations with ICE before his final, fatal encounter. Just as Good’s death lost steam when more details emerged that she wasn’t just a protestor but someone trained and involved in organizing protests, Pretti’s martyrdom started to look less like ICE brutality and more like continual escalation on his part until he crossed one line too many.
It’s also basic captive psychology- keep the crises/outrages flowing and no one ever has a chance to anchor themselves in reality and catch their breath to think.
We flowed from Goode, to Greenland, to Pretti in like 2 weeks time. I can’t even remember the pre-Goode outrage but there was something. Like 5 days +/- per outrage? It’s insane how perfectly handled the progressive culture movers do this.
It isn’t insane. It is intentional. Those organizations that are funding all these protests are actively training people in these kinds of tactics. Keep the pressure up. Never relent. Keep pushing the envelope so that there will eventually be a backlash that will be the next talking point.