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Doomsday Clock Or Barbra Streisand

How to identify fake news, any so-called news pedaled as science, from Washington Post:

The history of the Doomsday Clock as it moves closer to ‘midnight’

and New York Times

Doomsday Clock Moves Closer to Midnight, Signaling Concern …

Yet no mention of the 1963 crisis where two national leaders, John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev playing a fame of chicken with nuclear weapons, from  Investor’s Business Daily [1]:

“Closer to ‘Doomsday’ Than Any Year Since ’59” screams the headline in the Huffington Post.

[…]

The story, and many others like it, point to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ famous “Doomsday Clock,” which is supposed to be a reliable indicator of the risk the world faces of a nuclear war.

Plus, does anyone really believe we are 64% closer to global destruction today than we were during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962?

Funny white the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [2] lauds the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, hat tip \ to Ronald Reagan, but omits its construction, hats tips to Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy,.