10 Science Facts That Will Ruin Your Favourite Sci-Fi Movies
1. The "Mutating Neurons" Are BS - 2012
There's really no contest for the number one spot when Roland Emmerich is still out there changing science to fit the explosions he wants to film. Godspeed, Mr. Emmerich.
The Midway director’s 2008 disaster film 2012 was fortunately at least a few years off in its prediction of a doomsday only Oliver Platt and John Cusack can make it out of alive, but this entry isn't here to note that the film is inaccurate because the world failed to end eight years ago,
No, it's the "mutating neutrinos" which leave a lot of explanation to be desired in 2012, as famously noted by Mock the Week host Dara O’Briain in a routine he performed a few years after the release of the film.
The apparent cause of this flick's calamitous environmental catastrophe, these mutating neutrinos are naturally a scientific impossibility, given that the process of mutation by definition can't occur in a subatomic particle.