Debunked: World To End After Two Snowy Days In Salento, Puglia, Southern Italy

[C C]

http://www.science20.com/robert_inventor...con-222221

EXCERPT: As some of you may know, I've become deeply concerned, and indeed appalled by the large numbers of fake doomsday news stories, because I am so often contacted by people who get very scared and sometimes suicidal as a result of reading these stories. Fourteen tabloids and other papers have published this story so far, and none of them mention that it originates from a site known to publish fake news. The story is that the world is going to end because of two snowy days in Salento in Southern Italy, which they say is a prophetic sign of an imminent massive supervolcano eruption. I think it is a particularly striking case of doomsday news based on chinese whispers starting off from a fake story. There is not the slightest shred of a scientific reason for connecting two snowy days to supervolcano eruptions, as any of my readers with a scientific background will know. But stories like this scare young and also vulnerable people, who do not know how to evaluate them....

[Magical Realist]

There's sort of a perverse hope out there that a major catastrophe will hit our planet and reduce us all to survivors in a postapocalyptic scenario. It's this perhaps very human desire for total change of one's life, delivering us at last from the hum drum monotony of the everyday grind. This ofcourse is a romantic dream as people reduced to surviving on their own would not fare very well and would quickly die off leaving only bands of thieving extorting assholes like the Saviors in the Walking Dead series. Be careful what you wish for folks..Affirm daily what priveleges and conveniences you now have. Embrace the luxury of your monotony. You will not feel fine if the world as we know it ended.

[RainbowUnicorn]

http://www.science20.com/robert_inventor...con-222221

EXCERPT: As some of you may know, I've become deeply concerned, and indeed appalled by the large numbers of fake doomsday news stories, because I am so often contacted by people who get very scared and sometimes suicidal as a result of reading these stories. Fourteen tabloids and other papers have published this story so far, and none of them mention that it originates from a site known to publish fake news. The story is that the world is going to end because of two snowy days in Salento in Southern Italy, which they say is a prophetic sign of an imminent massive supervolcano eruption. I think it is a particularly striking case of doomsday news based on chinese whispers starting off from a fake story. There is not the slightest shred of a scientific reason for connecting two snowy days to supervolcano eruptions, as any of my readers with a scientific background will know. But stories like this scare young and also vulnerable people, who do not know how to evaluate them....

must be quite a thing when the US president endorses fake news.

the world watches the collapse of the modern journalistic truth through manipulation of the media.

soon no one will beleive anything that is broardcast and all democracy by informed consent by voting power and political accountability will be lost.

you can watch the wheels in motion daily on all the news channels.

the vehicle that informs the public is being dismantaled in plain sight.

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There's sort of a perverse hope out there that a major catastrophe will hit our planet and reduce us all to survivors in a postapocalyptic scenario. It's this perhaps very human desire for total change of one's life, delivering us at last from the hum drum monotony of the everyday grind. This ofcourse is a romantic dream as people reduced to surviving on their own would not fare very well and would quickly die off leaving only bands of thieving extorting assholes like the Saviors in the Walking Dead series. Be careful what you wish for folks..Affirm daily what priveleges and conveniences you now have. Embrace the luxury of your monotony. You will not feel fine if the world as we know it ended.

Reality TV "survivor apprentice"

its all very hand to mouth information processing isnt it.
look at all the role models.

all the churches obsessed with sex & power
all the leaders obssesed with ego & power


church and state mixing very nicely

[RainbowUnicorn]

There's sort of a perverse hope out there that a major catastrophe will hit our planet and reduce us all to survivors in a postapocalyptic scenario.

it is called christianity and it is the ideological lust for mass suffering & death...