Sauce: https://www.foxnews.com/science/10-times-experts-predicted-the-world-would-end-by-now
(I remember all this when I went to school and they are SEVERELY UNDERPLAYING all this shite that was THE GOSPEL TRUTH ACCORDING TO SCIENCE! You know, those evil people whose maths are racist! And are either white, know someone white, wear white lab coats, or are fashists anyway!)
So there's a list that spans multiple decades by "experts" in a variety of fields ranging from metallurgy to climate, looking for predictions that were wrong. And what did they come up with:
#1: A verbal statement on global warming by Noel Brown, who has a PhD in International Relations and served as a director at the U.N.
#2: A pop-culture book on famine written by a PhD plant pathologist (William Paddock) and a veteran of the Foreign Service (Paul Paddock).
#3: Verbal quotes on global freezing from a professor with a PhD in Zoology (Ken Watt), and a physics B.A. and educator (Nigel Calder).
#4: Another verbal statement on global warming by Noel Brown from #1.
#5: There doesn’t appear to be any #5.
#6: Verbal statement by Al Gore, for his film. Gore has a B.A. in Government and of course a career as a politician.
#7: Vague verbal statement on environmental disaster by Mostafa Tolba, who was a PhD plant pathologist and U.N. administrator.
#8: Verbal statement on mass extinction from Gaylord Nelson, who was a lawyer and U.S. Senator who supported environmental causes including Earth Day.
#9: Publication in Scientific American by Harrison Brown, a prominent PhD nuclear geochemist.
#10: Not actually a prediction, but a verbal statement by climatologist Stephen Schneider about talking to the public in simplified terms - and a similar quote by Timothy Wirth, who has a PhD in Education and was a U.S. Senator.
The only one of these that comes close to being a scientific prediction is #9 about metallurgy, if it is true. None of the others are even from scientists working in their fields, let alone peer-reviewed publications. I haven't read the source for #9 yet - maybe it really is a bad prediction, though it might also be misinterpreted.
Scientists do really make mistakes from time to time - it's possible that this was a real blunder. But the track record of published, peer-reviewed science is *vastly* better than the statements of politicians, administrators, activists, YouTubers, and pundits. Even if #9 is genuine blunder, I don't see how that should change my view of science as a whole compared to other sources.