2012hoax

One of the current hot issues in skepticism at the moment, is the doomsday scenario, where the world gets destroyed in 2012. Fueled by the current Hollywood blockbuster movie, it appears to be of real concern to many people. Eugenie Scott wrote this in a comment to a blogpost Brian Dunning had written:

Our skeptic friend David Morrison (NASA’s “Ask an astrobiologist”) reports an unusual number of very, very frightened emails from people who have heard the 2012 hype and are worried about impending disaster.

We saw the same tendencies during the Y2K scare (though that scare actually had some foundation in the truth).

Luckily there is a website dedicated to debunking the 2012 myths, called 2012hoax - Debunking the "2012 Doomsday". Written by people with backgrounds in astronomy, it points out the many factual errors in the doomsday scenarios presented by the 2012 proponents.

A good resource to point to, next time someone starts babbling about how the world is going to end in a couple of years.