CNN Takes the High Road on 2012
In December, CNN cut its science reporting staff. Did you notice? I bet not. This kind of thing has been going on all over the place, but hardly anyone has made a peep about it.
Although they've winnowed scientific literacy out of the professional ranks at CNN, occasionally some sense comes through anyway. Like this nice little piece by one A. Pawlowski.
My favorite bit is this:
Because they foster ignorance and superstition (and in may cases take money for doing so), the 2012 purveyors are on a par with evolution deniers, homeopaths or anti-vaxxers.
Although they've winnowed scientific literacy out of the professional ranks at CNN, occasionally some sense comes through anyway. Like this nice little piece by one A. Pawlowski.
My favorite bit is this:
And that just about nails it. Stuart manages in two sentences to state the entire problem caused by the 2012 B.S. brigade. There's no good reason to imagine the Mayans thought 2012 was anything but an interesting odometer reading, and the fact that anyone—be they charlatans or sincerely deluded people—who says otherwise is going to pervert people's understanding of real history for generations."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."
Because they foster ignorance and superstition (and in may cases take money for doing so), the 2012 purveyors are on a par with evolution deniers, homeopaths or anti-vaxxers.
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