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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
I'm also unsure exactly what happened but this morning SMH referred to 'miscommunication', which stacks up pretty well against what Dan and Andrew say. How often do we hear of scientific statements being misconstrued? Too often IMHO (global warming anyone).
John, I think the analogy would be more like the banks lubricating the faults, jumping up and down on them a few times and then selling off the land as prime real estate. The GFC was a totally human construct bought about by speculative investments and dishonest assessments by institutions who had more money on their hands than they could responsibly use. The criminality involved dwarfs anything these scientists could achieve even if they were deliberately malicious - which of course they aren't.
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I think you nailed the issue there David.
Unless the scientists deliberately went out of their way to conceal that an earthquake was imminent (payed off for example) there is no way they can be
charged.