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2012 Prophecies Sparking Real Fears, Suicide Warnings

National Geographic News, Nov. 9, 2009

Amid the hype -- including a viral marketing campaign for 2012, the disaster movie opening Friday, with bogus scientific organizations, press releases, and 2012 whistle-blowers --some people are developing "end times" anxiety that has experts seriously concerned.

NASA's Nibiru and Doomsday 2012: Questions and Answers and 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End? web pages seek to debunk stories about the fictional planet Nibiru and predictions of doomsday in December 2012.


Scenes from the motion picture "2012" (Columbia Pictures)


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