Science Friday #38: Are professional organizations good for science?

From transgender pseudoscience to the opiate crisis to "Atomic Scientists," who claim that climate change is a greater threat to humanity than nuclear war, Houston, we have a problem.
Delta 9 Minuteman missile silo in South Dakota.

Suggested reading:

How the Opiate Conspiracy Widened

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists needs a history lesson

Why 21st-century science is in trouble

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