Dim Bulb: Harold Camping

Published May 22, 2011 4:00am ET



Who: Family Radio International founder Harold Camping What: Predicted that the world would end on Saturday, May 21. Despite having incorrectly predicted this event in the past, he added: “There is … no possibility that it will not happen.”

Why it’s dim: The world didn’t end.

Cure: The next time Camping and his followers decide to predict the end of the world, could the media at least give them less coverage?