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Originally Posted by sjastro
The upshot of this decision is that the Italian court has inadvertently proclaimed seismology to be an "exact" science and the loss of life is based on human factors such as poor judgement, incompetence, deception etc
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My understanding is that it's the other way around i.e. The civil defense guy speaking on behalf of the scientists said there was no risk, and it was definitely safe for people to be in their houses, which lead people to go back inside trusting the guys word.
What he should have said they didn't know if there was any extra risk, and it was up to people to decide whether to go back inside or not.