1. 2012 is a New Age creation.
Wrong. I was surprised when more than one person asked me this. I believe this derives from the claims, or happily received projections, of certain New Age calendar makers, and the media attention around Harmonic Convergence in 1987. Though 2012 is an authentic Mayan artifact, the association in the public mind between it and Harmonic Convergence celebrities is hard to unravel, to the detriment of serious research.
2. The Maya tzolkin calendar is hopelessly confused and no reliable day-count can be found.
Misinformation; a bit of obfuscation projected primarily by Dreamspell followers. Ive addressed this since 1992 in various formats, including my book Tzolkin, on Yari Jeadas website, and most recently in a piece called Following Dreamspell. The fact remains that the surviving day-count among the Quiché and other Mayan groups is equivalent to the Classic Period day-count; it represents the unbroken survival of a day-count correlation that is at least 2,600 years old (see Edmonsons Book of the Year, 1988).