Dogmatic Science And Bureaucrats Will Be The Death Of Us Yet
Death toll in Italy quake on the rise
Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake
"ROME, April 6 (Reuters) - An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population.
The first tremors in the region were felt in mid-January and continued at regular intervals, creating mounting alarm in the medieval city, about 100 km (60 miles) east of Rome.
Vans with loudspeakers had driven around the town a month ago telling locals to evacuate their houses after seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani predicted a large quake was on the way, prompting the mayor's anger.
Giuliani, who based his forecast on concentrations of radon gas around seismically active areas, was reported to police for "spreading alarm" and was forced to remove his findings from the Internet."
The scientific establishment became smug, stiff and strident a long time ago, now it's on it's way to irrelevant. There are a lot of ways to sense the dangers of impending earthquakes, just ask Jim Berkland, and dogmatic science rejects them all with a sniff and a wave of the hand.
As the people are being dug out from the damage caused by this correctly predicted disaster, listen to Mr. Science arrogantly dismiss Giuliani's warning:
"As the media asked questions about the authorities' alleged failure to safeguard the population ahead of the quake, the head of the National Geophysics Institute dismissed Giuliani's predictions.
"Every time there is an earthquake there are people who claim to have predicted it," he said. "As far as I know nobody predicted this earthquake with precision. It is not possible to predict earthquakes."
Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake
"ROME, April 6 (Reuters) - An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population.
The first tremors in the region were felt in mid-January and continued at regular intervals, creating mounting alarm in the medieval city, about 100 km (60 miles) east of Rome.
Vans with loudspeakers had driven around the town a month ago telling locals to evacuate their houses after seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani predicted a large quake was on the way, prompting the mayor's anger.
Giuliani, who based his forecast on concentrations of radon gas around seismically active areas, was reported to police for "spreading alarm" and was forced to remove his findings from the Internet."
The scientific establishment became smug, stiff and strident a long time ago, now it's on it's way to irrelevant. There are a lot of ways to sense the dangers of impending earthquakes, just ask Jim Berkland, and dogmatic science rejects them all with a sniff and a wave of the hand.
As the people are being dug out from the damage caused by this correctly predicted disaster, listen to Mr. Science arrogantly dismiss Giuliani's warning:
"As the media asked questions about the authorities' alleged failure to safeguard the population ahead of the quake, the head of the National Geophysics Institute dismissed Giuliani's predictions.
"Every time there is an earthquake there are people who claim to have predicted it," he said. "As far as I know nobody predicted this earthquake with precision. It is not possible to predict earthquakes."
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