Nostradamus

Nostradamus' writings have frequently been misquoted and, in some instances, even deliberately altered in order to prove that he supposedly predicted various events. Since the advent of the Internet, many prophecies have even been fabricated outright.

If anyone still clings to the possibility that Nostradamus has been correct about anything, or is a legitimate prophet/seer, I'd point them to the works of James "The Amazing" Randi, who has debunked Nostradamus and his followers so thoroughly and scathingly that it's a wonder anyone still takes him seriously. Apparently ND is so entrenched in the cultural zeitgeist that any new "prediction" is newsworthy.

Hopefully the TV special on him didn't fall into the ever-popular media trap of simply pandering to the next big possible catastrophe.....which, admittedly, sells better than "everything's fine and the dude was a hack" but is itself hacked if they don't show the other side of the argument.