Total Hooey: The Strangest Non-Stories of 2012
By Benjamin Radford, LiveScience Bad Science Columnist | LiveScience.com – Thu, Dec 27, 2012
A lot of things happened in 2012, including scientific breakthroughs, a presidential re-election, and a tragic school shooting. But a lot of things didn't happen this past year.
We realize it's a little strange to discuss things that never occurred —
after all, countless things didn't happen in 2012, from an asteroid hitting Earth, to Justin Bieber marrying a supermodel, to Abraham Lincoln climbing out of his grave to praise Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" as being more historically accurate than "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."
But there were a handful of stories that made the news, often with a
splash, promising big news, and turned out to be non-stories,
non-events. Here are a few.
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