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NewKerala
| 7 months ago
The recent conviction of six Italian scientists and a government official for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake is ridiculous, says a group of young Mumbai scientists who have written to the Italian embassy in New Delhi. Italian...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
An Italian court found a group of Italian scientists guilty of manslaughter for failing to give adequate warnings of a massive earthquake.
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Italian science on trial The Italian earthquake trial, in which six seismologists and a civil servant were found guilty of manslaughter, has an eerie resonance with the Galileo trial of 1633 Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition, by Cristiano Banti.
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Officials Quit Over Punishment of Quake Experts Published: October 23, 2012 Several members of Italy 's National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks resigned Tuesday after the conviction of six scientists and a public official...
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Epoch Times
| 7 months ago
October 23, 2012 The disaster agency chief in Italy resigned Tuesday, a day after a court sentenced six scientists and a government official for failing to adequately predict a deadly earthquake in 2009. Luciano Maiani quit his post in protest...
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AKI
| 7 months ago
The president of Italy's natural-disaster risk-assessment commission, physicist Luciano Maiani and two other officials resigned on Tuesday after seven internationally recognised scientific experts were jailed for failing to warn citizens of the 2009...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
Four top Italian disaster experts quit their posts Tuesday, saying the manslaughter convictions of former colleagues for failing to adequately warn of a deadly 2009 earthquake means they can't effectively perform their duties. A court in the quake-...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Allstar/Sportsphoto Ltd One was a flamboyant Tuscan astronomer hailed by some as the father of modern science; the other is a one-time BBC weatherman from Eastbourne. In ordinary times Galileo Galilei and Michael Fish may have little in common, but...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Rome L'Aquila was hit by a devastating earthquake in 2009 that left 308 people dead and thousands homeless. Photograph: Giorgio Cosulich/Getty Images An Italian physicist handed a six-year jail sentence for giving falsely reassuring statements over...
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Arab News
| 7 months ago
The head of Italy's top disaster body quit in protest Tuesday after seven of its members were sentenced to six years in jail for manslaughter for underestimating the risks of a deadly 2009 earthquake. Major Risks Committee because there aren't the...
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The Bellingham Herald
| 7 months ago
Four top Italian disaster experts have quit their jobs, saying the convictions of several former colleagues for failing to adequately warn of a deadly 2009 earthquake means they can't properly perform their duties. A court on Monday convicted seven...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 months ago
The scientific world is reeling after six Italian scientists were sentenced to six years jail for failing to warn residents about a deadly earthquake that struck central Italy in 2009. A government official also received a jail term and the head of...
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The Times of India-Europe-World
| 7 months ago
Scientists on Tuesday sounded the alarm at the sentencing of six Italian seismologists for underestimating the risk of a 2009 earthquake, branding the verdict a dangerous blow to scientific freedom. From research into new drugs to identifying rogue...
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NeuroLogica
| 7 months ago
Oct 23 2012 This news is plastered over every general and science news outlet I can find Italian scientists have been found guilty of manslaughter for failure to properly warn about the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake. They have been sentenced to 6 years in...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
A group of Italian scientists was facing six years in jail for manslaughter last night (Monday) for providing "an incomplete, inept, unsuitable and criminally mistaken" assessment of risks posed by the devastating L'Aquila earthquake that killed more...
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Ansa
| 7 months ago
An influential body of US scientists on Tuesday criticised the Monday convictions of seven Italian scientists and officials to six years in prison for manslaughter over a 2009 earthquake in the central city of L'Aquila that killed over 300 people and...
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Ansa
| 7 months ago
Physicist Luciano Maiani on Tuesday resigned as president of Italy's principal natural-disaster risk-assessment body in the wake of the conviction of seven top-level scientists and public officials for manslaughter in connection with the April 2009...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Speaking in a hushed courtroom in L'Aquila, the city whose historic center was gutted by the April 2009 earthquake, the judge, Marco Billi, read a long list of names of those who died or were injured in the disaster before he handed down the...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
The arguments of science and reason did not sway a court verdict that called for earthquakes to be accurately predicted.
