The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will certainly not move the time on the infamous “Doomsday Clock” closer to midnight despite a shooting war in Europe involving a nuclear power, inspiring some hard questions about the practices of an establishment that a number of legacy media electrical outlets refer to as scientific.
When asked by the Washington Free Beacon whether the clock would tick closer to oblivion after pointing out criteria the organization made use of in the past, such as armed conflicts involving nations with nuclear weapons, a representative referred to a March 7 statement from the group saying the time would remain unchanged. However, a deafening silence followed, the subsequent questions about the organization’s methodology went unanswered.
The choice not to alter the clock follows Russian President Vladimir Putin choosing to put the Russian Federation’s nuclear forces on “high alert,” and NATO activating its rapid response force for the very first time since its founding. Curiously, the clock relocated three times toward midnight under former head of state Donald Trump, with the organization citing his failure to address, along with nuclear weapons, climate change as well as “fake news.”
Created in the results of World War II, the “Doomsday Clock” continues to be a fixation by lots of reporters over its meant prediction of when mankind will likely end itself. Both the New York Times as well as the Washington Post track every single one of its movements and position their protection in the particular documents’ scientific research sections, regardless of the clock not having any kind of connection to the scientific approach whatsoever.
The organization’s director, Rachel Bronson, is not a researcher and also formerly taught at Northwestern University’s service school as an adjunct professor. The original founders of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists consisted of Albert Einstein as well as other researchers that serviced the Manhattan Project.
The clock’s most recent change came in January 2020, one year prior to Biden’s ‘inaugurated’– marking the time at 100 secs to midnight– the most recent move in the history of the clock. It has remained there for the past three years. In a statement at the time, the group cited the end of the Iran nuclear offer, the “continued corruption of the information ecosphere on which democracy and public decision making depend,” and also Trump’s decision to take out the United States from the Paris Climate Change agreement, to name a few things, as reasons that obliged the organization to think humanity is closer to extinction than at any type of time in history.
For comparison, throughout the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when the United States and Soviet Union virtually participated in a nuclear war, the Doomsday Clock stood at seven mins to midnight. The last time the clock turned back was under former President Barack Obama in 2010, with the team commemorating his work with reducing carbon emissions.
Mainstream media outlets such as the Washington Post have not questioned the team’s activities on the clock. A 2017 write-up from the outlet was entitled “The Doomsday Clock just advanced, ‘thanks to Trump’: It’s now just 2 ½ minutes to ‘midnight,'” despite no one in the story being quoted as saying “thanks to Trump.” Another story from the Associated Press titled “Scientists move Doomsday Clock 30 seconds to midnight” featured a photo of Thomas Pickering, that is not a scientist and serves on the board of the Iranian lobbying group National Iranian American Council, at the announcement. All of this seems to suggest that the only ‘science’ behind The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock… is political science.
