Why?
Astrogeek 04 Dec 2012 23:55
One of the frequent questions we handle here at 2012hoax.org is "Why do people seem to want to believe this stuff?".
As it turns out, Michael Shermer from Skeptic magazine and the Skeptics Society wrote an article in New Scientist magazine in June 2011 titled "The end is always nigh in the human mind". It is definitely worth a read.
"Do you ever think about things you do think about?" - Henry Drummond to Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind