Heads up NOAA, you're next.

[cthulu2016]

Manslaughter conviction for inaccurate predictions?

Yes, folks, government scientists in Italy found guilty of manslaughter for offering their best scientific understanding, given the available data, of the probability of an earthquake.

Heads up NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), you're next.

Welcome to th dark ages... which we never really left, but did paper over for a time.

Source: BBC

Six Italian scientists and an ex-government official have been sentenced to six years in prison over the 2009 deadly earthquake in L'Aquila.

A regional court found them guilty of multiple manslaughter.

Prosecutors said the defendants gave a falsely reassuring statement before the quake, while the defence maintained there was no way to predict major quakes.

The 6.3 magnitude quake devastated the city and killed 309 people.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20025626

[RC]

1. Italy has their version of Republicans too.

Or is this the same group that condemned and censured Galileo? Whatever, that is some disconnect from reality there.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. The GOPers would just get rid of NOAA altogether

in order to privatize weather services.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Remember when Gingrich wanted to get rid of the Deparment of Commerce?

and people had to remind him that both NOAA and the Census Bureau were under it.

Regarding this case with Italy, the analogous agency would be USGS.

[cthulu2016]

4. True, about USGS, but the practical equivalent here would be

NOAA in terms of who would face the most practical legal hazard from a failure to accurately predict acts of God standard.

[RegieRocker]

5. The return to fascism.

How fitting for Italy.

[maxsolomon]

6. a jury in perugia convicted amanda know & rafaello sollecito

of murder, and their cases were laughable, as well.

hopefully an appeal will restore sanity as it did in the meredith kircher case.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. my twitter feed is exploding

I mostly follow scientists and news.. they're outraged (appropriately so).