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Title: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: TechMan on May 27, 2011, 12:58:57 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/27/italian-scientist-charged-manslaughter-failing-predict-earthquake/ (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/27/italian-scientist-charged-manslaughter-failing-predict-earthquake/)


V is for vendetta.  There is something more to this than meets the eye.  I don't know how any jury of intelligence could convict them if they go to trial.

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Judge Giuseppe Romano Gargarella said that the seven defendants had supplied "imprecise, incomplete and contradictory information," in a press conference following a meeting held by the committee 6 days before the quake, reported the Italian daily Corriere della Sera

In doing so, they "thwarted the activities designed to protect the public," the judge said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/27/italian-scientist-charged-manslaughter-failing-predict-earthquake/#ixzz1NZa7Lj7D
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: TommyGunn on May 27, 2011, 01:22:36 PM
You expect me to believe there's any place with worse laws than California?   [tinfoil]

Seriously, this is beyond bizarre.  I am aware that there are geologists who are trying real hard to discover how to understand and even predict earthquakes and other tectonic events, but I have never heard of any research that would allow one to predict the next 'quake to the point I would think they ought to be brought into a court and prosecuted if they failed to do it right.
Even whipping them with soggy linguini is going too far.
This stinks.
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: AJ Dual on May 27, 2011, 01:36:10 PM
Italian justice seems to have a higher proclivity for "going full-retard" than most other first world Western nations.  =|

Like the whole situation with that American student Amanda Knoxx's trial for murder, her prosecutor wound up on some sort of misconduct charges, however they wouldn't review her case etc.

Here in the U.S. a prosecutor goes down... and they practically have to just throw the prison doors open...
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: Regolith on May 27, 2011, 02:38:01 PM
Italian justice seems to have a higher proclivity for "going full-retard" than most other first world Western nations.  =|

That's an understatement.  I'm starting to think that Italy didn't make it into the 21st century with the rest of us, and is stuck somewhere around the 16th...
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: HankB on May 27, 2011, 02:56:42 PM
Next week Italian authorities are going to descend on hospitals and medical schools to arrest all the doctors who haven't found a cure for cancer, the common cold, and AIDS.

They're currently building cells for the weather forecasters who keep making mistakes . . .
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: 230RN on May 27, 2011, 03:14:55 PM
I hereby predict disasters everywhere, for all time.

<whew!>  There.  I'm off the hook.
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: Azrael256 on May 28, 2011, 02:41:22 AM
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I'm starting to think that Italy didn't make it into the 21st century with the rest of us, and is stuck somewhere around the 16th...

Seriously, I'm expecting them to burn him at the stake for this.  They'll be having witch trials next week.
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: wacki on May 29, 2011, 11:38:01 AM
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I don't know how any jury of intelligence could convict them if they go to trial.

It's Italy.  Given their history, I wouldn't be too surprised.
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: TechMan on May 29, 2011, 11:54:10 AM
It's Italy.  Given their history, I wouldn't be too surprised.

Touche