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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Feb 1

    Stop the (Doomsday) clock- Another op ed (this one by the Globe's excellent Michael Cohen) on why this fear-mongering gimmick is pernicious. https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/01/26/stop-doomsday-clock/GEjNYQlUZIlKOXvXsHPGLK/story.html?event=event25 … via @BostonGlobe

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      2. Eric D. Özkan‏ @ericozkan1 Feb 2
        Replying to @sapinker @SteveStuWill @BostonGlobe

        Thank you Steve! I saw a pic of Lawrence Krauss posing with the clock recently and it just didn't ring true...put the clock in a museum as a vestige of the cold war. We'll never be completely safe but why ramp it up irrationally by focusing on a "Doomsday Clock"? #dumptheclockpic.twitter.com/NvFng38Ge2

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      3. Eric D. Özkan‏ @ericozkan1 Feb 2
        Replying to @ericozkan1 @sapinker and

        @LKrauss1 @michaelshermer @jordanbpetersonpic.twitter.com/jXGk3RtvAK

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      1. Phil Torres‏ @xriskology Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Whoa, not sure that @speechboy71 has a good grasp of nuclear tensions during the Cold War and today. *Miscalculation* is, and probably has always been, the number one danger. This has nothing to do with game theory.

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      1. Joseph McDermott‏ @joeymacjoeface Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Why? It makes for such an awesome song!pic.twitter.com/bkFO2A9SL3

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      1. Clint McCandless‏ @clintmccandless Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Wonder how @LKrauss1 feels about this.

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      2. CJ Turtoro‏ @CJTDevil Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Do I smell a @sapinker vs @LKrauss1 debate?!?

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      1. bigbrainplace‏ @bigbrainplace Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Thankfully, it seems this is a pretty crappy timepiece. It has been a matter of minutes through most of my life and I'm still here. And if it strikes midnight, who will know?

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      1. KariMD 💫‏ @magesticsloth Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @benshapiro @BostonGlobe

        Does ANYONE actually care about this? Huge propaganda tool!! That's it.

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      1. Matthew Prorok‏ @MJtheProphet Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Steve, things are not fine.

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      1. 程國軒(Ching Kwok Hin)‏ @_kwokhin Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Things get difficult to predict when a single man controls the ability to anhiliate. It is arguable if that single man does indeed hold that control. However, there seem to be a good few precedents set by the current president that I am not sure if the usual checks work anymore.

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      1. Ashok Kumar Pathak‏ @ashokpathak1604 Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Wow!! Steven you add joy and hope to the life!!

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      1.  🍁 Jenna‏ @MacWhirterJ Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        If you seriously think the possibility of nuclear holocaust is less now than it was during the Cold War, you embody the very reason we NEED the wake up call the Doomsday Clock is trying to give us.

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      1. Tanglewood 🦋 🍁‏ @StacAmberly Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        It might be pernicious but it’s relevant to the political climate right now with an unpredictable & unreliable US President.

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      1. Lucas Bargmann‏ @LueBar Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        I agree it is a ridiculous device, but there is no claim in its predictions. Just a bunch of probability that is ran through computers on loops spitting out data. God hasn’t spit out anything new for a thousand years. Sidetone: #sotu wasn’t that bad.

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      1. Patrick Toomey‏ @Me2meruToomey Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        I have my own Clock. It says it’s O Beer:30.

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      1. Franz P. Handermann‏ @RDT_Franz Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        I'd say we might argue about the way the clock is used atm. I'd strongly argue against the way Mr Cohen shruggs off the dangers of the nuclear arsenal present & rdy to blow around the world.

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      1. Peter Mogensen‏ @MogensenPeter Feb 1
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Whether or not it's a good idea to continue this "tradition" is probably a good question, - but calling it a "fear-mongering gimmick" is just silly. We have at least two very real civilization threatening problems: Nukes and global warming.

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