DOOMSDAY: Widespread misinterpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar led many people to believe that a cataclysm would mark the end of 2012.© NATALIA LUKIYANOVA/ISTOCKPHOTO.COM
—NASA senior scientist David Morrison, citing a recent Reuters poll indicating that more than 25 million Americans did not expect to see Christmas last year because they believed that the world would end on December 21, 2012 (The Young Turks, December 6, 2012)
—Boston University archaeologist William Saturno, describing his
research team’s discovery of the oldest known Maya lunar calendar,
which contradicted the popular view that the Maya predicted
Armageddon in 2012 (iO9, May 10, 2012)
—US Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), in a GQ interview (December 2012)
—Eric Lander, genomicist and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (“Genetics” in Biology, 7th edition, 2005).
—Famed science fiction author and biochemist Isaac Asimov, in his 1988 book with Jason A. Shulman, Isaac Asimov’s ...
