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Title: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: Chris_ on May 27, 2011, 04:41:49 PM: Quote
Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake

Italian government officials have accused the country's top seismologist of manslaughter, after failing to predict a natural disaster that struck Italy in 2009, a massive devastating earthquake that killed 308 people.

A shocked spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) likened the accusations to a witch hunt.

"It has a medieval flavor to it -- like witches are being put on trial," the stunned spokesman told FoxNews.com.

Enzo Boschi, the president of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), will face trial along with six other scientists and technicians, after failing to predict the future and the impending disaster.
Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/27/italian-scientist-charged-manslaughter-failing-predict-earthquake/#ixzz1NajGQ5Mz)

Ridiculous.
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: JohnnyReb on May 27, 2011, 04:46:54 PM: ...and I predict lightning will strike Leroy next Monday at 6:36 am.

If he isn't struck, it's because I warned him....and if he is struck, it's because he didn't heed my warning.
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: thelaughingman on May 28, 2011, 12:22:40 AM: I hope, but don't expect -- it is the EU after all, that any judge hearing this case would throw it out based on just the nonsense of it all.
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: Thor on May 28, 2011, 07:49:48 AM: I don't know of ANYBODY that has successfully predicted an Earthquake.
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: compaqxp on May 28, 2011, 02:59:50 PM: :wtf2:

I didn't know we all of a sudden had the ability to accurately predict earthquakes, let alone at all.
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: CG6468 on May 28, 2011, 03:17:19 PM: Quote from: compaqxp on May 28, 2011, 02:59:50 PM
:wtf2:

I didn't know we all of a sudden had the ability to accurately predict earthquakes, let alone at all.

I guess in Italy and the EU that doesn't matter.
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on May 28, 2011, 09:54:06 PM: Quote from: Thor on May 28, 2011, 07:49:48 AM
I don't know of ANYBODY that has successfully predicted an Earthquake.

Last Thursday I successfully predicted the San Francisco quake of 1906.
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: JohnnyReb on June 01, 2011, 12:40:33 PM: Quote from: SGT Snuggle Bunny on May 28, 2011, 09:54:06 PM
Last Thursday I successfully predicted the San Francisco quake of 1906.

Well, that's what you get for using US snail mail to get the word out.
Title: Re: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on June 01, 2011, 01:38:22 PM: This kind of BS legal thinking is one huge reason why the DOD would fight tooth and nail against the US ever signing on to to subject anyone in our forces to the jurisdiction of the European-controlled, so-called International Court of Justice war crimes court.