Stop Pretending the ‘Doomsday Clock’ Means Anything

This week, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced how close the journal’s scientists believe the world is to a human-made catastrophe. Yawn. The “warning” comes in the form of the famous “Doomsday Clock,” which since 1947 has used a minute-hand relative to 12 o’clock – in this case, “midnight” – purportedly to show our […]