An Italian tribunal has sentenced six scientists and a former government official tosix years in prisonfor a faulty prognostication of the 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila . What is this , the Salem witch trials ? This is a dangerously anti - science precedent , even if it ’s just in Italy .
The 6.3 magnitude quake killed 309 and go out the city in shambles . Of course officials and victim are probably face for someone to blame for the excited and fiscal distress stimulate . Thus , they ruled that this seven people give “ inexact , incomplete and self-contradictory ” intel about just how serious the tremors feel before the genuine quake were . Prosecutors said their warnings were incorrectly reassuring . The defense argued that they ca n’t predict major earthquakes with complete truth . I ’m travel to have to bow to the defence reaction , which has not said if it will appeal . But jail time for falsely forecasting a natural disaster ? Seems like a dubious criterion . [ BBC ]
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