Project Avalon featured in news article

[sdv]

December 21: Mayan's End Of World Calendar Linked To Gangnam Style's Psy (Thanks Nostradamus)

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/12/december-21-mayan-end-world-gangnam-style-psy-nostradamus_n_2285027.html#s1872873&title=OctoberNovember_1982_

Interesting!

[ThePythonicCow]

December 21: Mayan's End Of World Calendar Linked To Gangnam Style's Psy (Thanks Nostradamus)

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/12/december-21-mayan-end-world-gangnam-style-psy-nostradamus_n_2285027.html#s1872873&title=OctoberNovember_1982_

Interesting!

Here's the thread on this forum that the above Huffington Post article refers to: Just a little something I ran into (Nostradamus prediction) (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?52680-Just-a-little-something-I-ran-into--Nostradamus-prediction-)

[Elly]

This is unbelievable from The Huffington Post!

As I posted in this thread: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?52680-Just-a-little-something-I-ran-into--Nostradamus-prediction-/page2
(http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?52680-Just-a-little-something-I-ran-into--Nostradamus-prediction-/page2)
It's a hoax according to: http://skeptophilia.blogspot.ca/2012...nd-end-of.html

" The origin of the claim was someone who posted it on the phenomenally wacky site Godlike Productions (see the original post here, and interestingly, it almost instantly got called out as bull**** by people who (like I did) took the extra two minutes to see if the quote was actually from Nostradamus. (If you want to spend a few hours turning your brain into cream of mushroom soup, all of Nostradamus' predictions are available here. You won't, if you're wondering, find any mention of a "dancing horse" in any of them.) Eventually the original poster admitted that he'd made it all up, but even with all of the screams of "Lies! It's all lies!" and the original poster's confession, this still made it out into the web as a valid claim. After that, it spiraled out of control, even making it onto mainstream media (I ran into it on The Examiner)."

Very weird to have linked Project Avalon.

[Kryztian]

Oh, the Mass Media. If you don't doubt their intentions to spread fear and disinformation, it is right there in the first sentence of the article:


Sooooo....according to those fun-loving Mayans, the world is going to end on 21 December 2012.

They wouldn't choose to put that sentiment in a more academic article about Mayan archeology or cosmology, they will just insert that little footnote of fear into an article about pop music. If you go to the slide show below and scroll to panel 6, you see this little gem:


Several scientists and speculators had proposed numerous astronomical alignments hinting at the planet's demise

Unlike the other slides, there is no actual name of a research or prognosticator that they can cite. The only speculator of doom here is the Huffington Post itself.

[sdv]

Very weird to have linked Project Avalon.

My speculation is that the article was either written by a forum member (unlikely?), or reporters/journalists are among the thousands who visit the forum and one decided to use the forum as a source for a story. If it is the latter, it is interesting because Bill Ryan has pretty much stepped out of the limelight so there is no 'front man' drawing attention to this vibrant forum - just the forum itself and all the interesting conversations taking place here.

[gripreaper]

Huff Po? Now that is funny, in a "Psy" sort of way.

[KiwiElf]

The link to the recent Avalon article/post is here:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?52680-Just-a-little-something-I-ran-into--Nostradamus-prediction-