South Orange, NJ -- Scientists who predict the end of the world may be doomed to failure.

That's the prediction of Alan Caruba, who heads the National Anxiety Center, an organization that annually hands out dubious honors to the year's "Most Dubious News Stories."

Although all the chosen news stories are equally dubious, Caruba gives high marks of skepticism to a story run by Reuters in August suggesting that a volcano off the coast of North Africa is slipping and could eventually drown millions living near Canada and America's eastern seaboard.

Another "dubey" goes to the "New York Times" for printing a story in July stating that the Earth's magnetic field is collapsing but waiting until several paragraphs later to point out the public has "no reason to panic" because the complete collapse might take 2000 years.

Finally, Caruba gives a big fat "dubey" to former Vice President Al Gore, who this past January appeared in New England to blame George W. Bush for global warming -- even though it was the coldest day in 50 years in that part of the country.

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