Ok so this is somewhat very outdated but it's still rather amusing. Really.

Brian Cox on the 2012 world-ending hoax:

See the Maya had some elaborate system of counting, it all cycles around and their whole civilisation was built on it, so I have no quarrel at all with the Maya, I think they had a beautiful civilisation. [but] People on the internet today who …. the thing is, the calendar is based on the number of fingers and toes you've got, right. How can that have cosmic significance? 5 5 5 5. How can that have cosmic significance? It just depends entirely on what - on how many dextrous protrusions the organism that invented the civilisation's got. So ….."

Interviewer:

"So your opinion of people that think the world will end in 2012 because that's the end of the Mayan long count is? Your opinion is?"

I reckon that they might be statistically right, because you've got to be such a ** to believe it, that you might have a higher statistical chance of walking in front of a bus. So in that sense, they could be statistically correct. And it will be to the advantage of all of us, because the human race will progress in a more measured way, if the people who believe that are statistically removed in 2012.

"how many dextrous protrusions the organism that invented the civilisation's got"
"because the human race will progress in a more measured way, if the people who believe that are statistically removed in 2012" hahaha ok enough procrastinating and it's time to study econs.