I am against 2012 phenomenon. Nothing will happen.
I defend the sceptical approach. There is no indication that, for example, a volcano will erupt. That means 100% certainty that no volcano will erupt.
Also the poles won't shift, because I believe that they don't budge. And most of all, there will not be any "big global thingy that will affect us all". [/color]
I bet some of you actually hear/read this when someone criticizes 2012 hype.
Now when some denounce and others defend these theories, a lot of people seem to have an idea about scientists/science as these pompous elititsts sitting on their asses denying everything that could happen. I'm sure part of the credit goes to people trying to prove god does not exist, while all they actually do is play one side of a binary belief system.
But yeah, science isn't static.The core idea (to me at least) does not deny anything.
It's also not popular to use such concept as 100% certainty, it's somewhat of an absurd idea in scientific rhetorics. Still, it's a part of everyday speech and when a CERN representative says it's very unlikely that a black hole will occur with the hard-on collider, dumb fucks think it's actually possible.
Scientists just say it's unlikely, because hype and predicting the future is business for crackpots and dumb fucks.
It sells books, news, magazines, t-shirts, mugs etc. That's all.