[Durham Giant]

Science has to be exact or else : Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:24 pm  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20025626 incredible 6 scientists who gave an inaccurate account of the likelihood of an Earthquake in Italy have been sent to prison. I bet Michael Fish is glad he does not live in Italy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20025626 incredible 6 scientists who gave an inaccurate account of the likelihood of an Earthquake in Italy have been sent to prison. I bet Michael Fish is glad he does not live in Italy.

[Kosh]

Re: Science has to be exact or else : Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:38 pm  

Farcical decision. If not reversed then all that will happen is that nobody will issue any warnings or risk assessments whatsoever in the future.

[tb]

Re: Science has to be exact or else : Mon Oct 22, 2012 6:26 pm  

I'd hate to be Michael Fish right now ...

Re: Science has to be exact or else : Mon Oct 22, 2012 7:07 pm  

Heard this on radio 4 on the way home.

Worrying.......

[Wanderer]

Re: Science has to be exact or else : Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:11 pm  

Weather forecasters (the clue is in the second word) ...

Re: Science has to be exact or else : Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:14 pm  

Jonathon Amos wrote:

But the authorities who pursued the seven defendants stressed that the case was never about the power of prediction - it was about what was interpreted to be an inadequate characterisation of the risks; of being misleadingly reassuring about the dangers that faced their city.

The politicians involved in the levee's in New Orleans. Anti-global warming scientists who are heavily funded by oil companies.

My first thought was that the trial was a ridiculous joke. It might be, but it could be that the scientists did downplay the risks because of political and financial reasons.

I think the rush to judgement to mock this is wrong. The data will either free them or convict them.

Re: Science has to be exact or else : Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:42 pm  

...I'd say the record of environmental 'doomsday' predictions is worse if anything - and easily as biased as paid research by corporations. The idea that all research that doesn't support global warming is paid for by oil companies is ridiculous. Some predictions are repeated here: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/ ... forecasts/

...I'd say the record of environmental 'doomsday' predictions is worse if anything - and easily as biased as paid research by corporations. The idea that all research that doesn't support global warming is paid for by oil companies is ridiculous. Some predictions are repeated here: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/ ... forecasts/

Re: Science has to be exact or else : Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:14 am  

Next up, the pharmaceutical companies that hide data on trials so as to give misleading impressions of the efficacy and safety of drugs.

Re: Science has to be exact or else : Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:51 am  

Come on Minty! Everything is better when done by private enterprise. Market forces compel them to be completely truthful in everything they do.....

Re: Science has to be exact or else : Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:56 am