Marc Siegel

internist and professor

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Internist and Associate Professor at the New York University School of Medicine; author of Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know about the Next Pandemic and False Alarm: The Truth about the Epidemic of Fear, he writes the Unreal World column for the Los Angeles Times

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When the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock .  As the prospect of nuclear war gets more likely, the…

Doomsday Scenarios

When the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock .  As the prospect of nuclear war gets more likely, the…

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When the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the "Doomsday Clock."  As the prospect of nuclear war gets more likely, the…

Doomsday Scenarios: What to Believe?

When the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the "Doomsday Clock."  As the prospect of nuclear war gets more likely, the…

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