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Started by Roly Poly Oly-Garch, October 23, 2012, 08:48:43 PM

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Roly Poly Oly-Garch

Please someone tell me there's more to the story than that.

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-italy-quake-verdict-science-trial.html

QuoteSeismologists said they were horrified after six of their colleagues were sentenced to six years in jail for manslaughter Monday on charges of underestimating the risk of an earthquake that struck Italy in 2009.

Back to the fecal matter in the pool

The Good Reverend Roger

Well, SOMEONE has to be held accountable.  SOMEONE has to be blamed when shit like this happens.  After all, it's hard to work up a good sense of moral outrage against a tectonic plate, right?  And outrage is what it's all about.
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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Why are even the top-ranking comments on that article completely retarded?
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

On the topic of earthquakes, you might find this interesting, if not useful: http://www.pnsn.org/earthquakes/recent
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


LMNO

So from what I get out of this, a closed dorr meeting was held, the scientists gave an assessment (the specifics of which were not in the article), and then a government mouthpiece says, "the scientific community tells me there is no danger because there is an ongoing discharge of energy". Which, and the article points this out, Most seismologists, including several of the indicted, consider this statement to be scientifically incorrect.

From what it sounds like (and this is only from the limited facts given), the mouthpiece got it wrong, and that's what caused the victims to stay in the city.  Which means it's his fault, not the scientists.


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 24, 2012, 01:15:42 PM
So from what I get out of this, a closed dorr meeting was held, the scientists gave an assessment (the specifics of which were not in the article), and then a government mouthpiece says, "the scientific community tells me there is no danger because there is an ongoing discharge of energy". Which, and the article points this out, Most seismologists, including several of the indicted, consider this statement to be scientifically incorrect.

From what it sounds like (and this is only from the limited facts given), the mouthpiece got it wrong, and that's what caused the victims to stay in the city.  Which means it's his fault, not the scientists.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I got as well. It sounds like the seismologists basically said, accurately, that they couldn't predict an increased risk of earthquake because it's an area with many earthquakes already, and the government dude translated that to "Scientists say there's no risk".

When, of course, if you live on a fault, there's ALWAYS risk, and many small earthquakes don't necessarily precede a large one so it's hard to consider them warning signs. (Although a bunch of small earthquakes under a volcano may be a pretty accurate warning sign for eruption, that's quite different.)
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


The Good Reverend Roger

Italy imprisoning scientists?

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!
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Prince Glittersnatch III

My hope is that this will lead to a legal precedent by which weathermen can be held responsible for water damage when they fail to predict rain.
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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Prince Glittersnatch III on October 24, 2012, 08:34:25 PM
My hope is that this will lead to a legal precedent by which weathermen can be held responsible for water damage when they fail to predict rain.

Or, perhaps, mass executions when they fail to predict drought.

Hell, why not go whole-hog and make the study of science punishable by death, nip it in the bud before they have a chance to predict anything in case they get it wrong.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


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LMNO

Whatever happened to, "WE REPORT.  YOU DECIDE."

Cain

This thread title bugs me.

"Italian Justice" is a blatant oxymoron.

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Quote from: Cain on October 25, 2012, 01:40:09 PM
This thread title bugs me.

"Italian Justice" is a blatant oxymoron.

No it's not, it's a euphemism for "decapitated horse"

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