http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/20219/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/italian_scientists_sent_jail_failing_predict_earthquake <p>A year and a half ago, we wrote about some Italian seismologists who were being tried for manslaughter after a risk assessment they wrote up, in which they concluded that a series of small earthquakes along a faultline wasn't that serious, and the risk of a big earthquake was not that high. About a week later, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck, destroying a bunch of buildings and killing over 300 people.</p> <p><a href="http://www.freetalklive.com/content/italian_scientists_sent_jail_failing_predict_earthquake" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/italian_scientists_sent_jail_failing_predict_earthquake#comments causality earthquake Incompetence insane italian italy jailed judge manslaughter News Article predict prediction ridiculous scientists seismologists Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:50:23 +0000 iambinarymind 24053 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/critics_%E2%80%98post_birth_abortion%E2%80%99_guilty_%E2%80%98hate_speech%E2%80%99 <p>“The editor of an ethics journal that recently published an article advocating infanticide (what the authors call ‘post-birth abortion’), has responded to widespread criticism by pointing out that promoting the killing of newborns is nothing new: in fact, in the Netherlands infant