NewsDay: 2012 - Not the End of the World

As the 2012 blockbuster movie edges closer to a global release, every level of news media is chiming in with a mixture of fact, pseudo-fact, mis-information and quotes from whichever expert they came across first. In early November it might become difficult to avoid the 2012 topic.

Archaeologists, astronomers and modern-day Mayas shrug off the popular frenzy over the date of 2012, predicting it will bring nothing more than a meteor shower of new-age “consciousness,” pseudo-science and alarmist television specials. Found at NewsDay (via AP)

The article points out that only one Mayan inscription specifically refers to 2012 (this is factual), and follows this with another fact that takes the wind out of the 2012 sails - there’s another inscription that mentions a different year: 4772.
The tone of the article, which has snippets of information from various experts, is that a Mayan doomsday in 2012 is purely a western concept with little to support i