December 21, 2012
» Pseudoscience
The Mayan calendar is back. This time spawning a film, 2012, t-shirts, new books of nonsense and more clutter on the world wide web.
A new subject for the average ignoramus to acquire misinformation spread by self-taught 'scholars.'
"There's going to be a whole generation of people who, when they think of the Maya, think of 2012, and to me that's just criminal," said David Stuart, director of the Mesoamerica Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
"There is no serious scholar who puts any stock in the idea that the Maya said anything meaningful about 2012."
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