Old news is no news. The adverse effects of scientific progress are an open secret. School kids are familiar with hosts of scientific achievements that pose colossal dangers. Fossil fuel engines, engineered viruses, and nuclear devices are some basic examples. Quite remarkably, science still enjoys a superb public image. However, this book explores a few neglected questions: • Is the current risk of doom at least 50%? • Have scientists obfuscated their accountability? • Have scientists played a key role in the contemporary endangerment of humanity? • Is any applicable scientific discovery potentially destructive? • Have scientific institutions routinely ignored their critics? • Have scientists created new problems far more severe than the old problems they had solved? • Have scientists long stuck to stagnant presuppositions, agendas, and policies? • Have scientific communities consistently cultivated their public image? • Have scientific communities repeatedly evaded the need to control science? • Have scientific communities long succumbed to group thinking?