Harold Camping says he is "flabbergasted" the world did not end. He seems disappointed, saying "It has been a really tough weekend." See:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/22/BAKO1JJIK7.DTL Another quote from some guy who is a fan of Camping: "The middle-aged Oakland resident said he'd been listening to Camping since 1993, when he said the world would end in 1994. That was strike one, the man said. And this is strike two. Even so, he said, that doesn't mean the message is wrong. 'I just know he's biblically sound,' the man said. 'I've never been one of these guys who think everything he says is true." His fans seem very forgiving! Strike one, strike two and this guy still takes him seriously. It does make me wonder how I would respond if I discovered that cold fusion is not real, and all those researchers were mistaken or fraudulent. I cannot deny I have an emotional investment. That event would surely bother me a lot more than, say, learning that special relativity is incorrect in important ways, or learning that evolution is partly caused by something other than Darwinian natural selection. That would be interesting but it wouldn't bother me. - Jed
