The Definitive Guide to the Doomsday Phenomenon
SCIENCE
or
SUPERSTITION
Alexandra Bruce www.2012sos.net
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For my father, Roger Alan Bruce
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am very grateful to Gary Baddeley for giving me the opportunity to root around in the woolly worlds of human beliefs. I would like to thank the on-camera interviewees of the film version of 2012: Science or Superstition, courageous people who have the temerity to challenge the orthodoxies—or to defend them, as their consciences see fit. In particular, I’d like to thank Graham Hancock, Dr. Anthony Aveni, John Major Jenkins, Alonso Mendez, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alberto Villoldo and Walter Cruttenden for the work they do and for their wonderful insights. I wish to express my gratitud