Seismologists charged with manslaughter

This is horse hockey. This is like accusing the weather man of direct disinformation. They can't predict everything.

Laughable

Thomas Moore was killed after writing Utopia ...

April 1st again already?

Malpractice lawsuits, loss of license, public ridicule. Sylvia Brown, makes thousands of dollars a day and told a woman her child was dead when the kid was found dead a few days later. Harold Camping, predicts the Rapture which drove some people to attempt suicide, or to sell off all of their belongings and dump their cash, still leads his church group. These are American examples, but Italy has their own assemblage of quacks. Weird side note...I think I remember reading that there was a pretty big quake somewhere on the same day that Camping predicted his rapture. Can't remember all the detai... [More]

Why can't we do the same to Harold camping?

Almost medieval in it's stupidity! If I were an Italian I would be furious at the politicians who made the charge, for making the country look like a bunch of backward idiots!!

Blame, blame, blame. It's a sick world. Blame the bakery cause you are too fat! blueandi is right on!

The whole thing is stupid. But then there are a lot of ignorant supersticious people who probably would have had the scientists burned at the stake if the made a CORRECT prediction, and accusing them of witchcraft. It is shifting the blame from shoddy construction, poor planning and building codes.

What a travesty and a joke! The unmittigated arrogance of holding an individual person responsible for their lack of "Psychic" ability - as everything we know about geology tells us that is what it would take to predict an earthquake at this time with the knowledge they have. Although, Italy is showing a significant history on the "witchhunt" front lately - refer Amanda Knox .... It is just plain shameful