Kent Hovind apparently arrested this past week

[Frank Robert]

Six Italian scientists and a government official have been sentenced to six years in prison over statements they made prior to a 2009 earthquake that killed 309 in the town of L'Aquila.

SOURCE

From the article:

"Our ability to predict earthquake hazards is, frankly, lousy," Seth Stein, a professor of Earth sciences at Northwestern University in Illinois, told LiveScience then. "Criminalizing something would only make sense if we really knew how to do this and someone did it wrong."​

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Knowing whether small quakes are foreshocks for a larger temblor is impossible, according to seismologists. A 1988 study of other quake-prone Italian regions found, for example, that about half of large quakes were preceded by weaker foreshocks. But only 2 percent of small quake swarms heralded a larger rupture.​

The scientists made a mistake of not making the risks from "small quake swarms" known but a 2 percent risk probably would not have convinced many people to leave.

 

[Hans Blaster]

And? No-one ever said that scientists were infallible.

(As you likely know) our friend on Guam is obsessed with casting scientists in a negative light. This group of Italian seismologists is one of his bank of scientific "crimes" used to distract or lash out.

In the previous decade, Kent Hovind has been treated as infallible by those who accept his claims on here. Though honestly I'd just thought he'd died when everyone stopped talking about him.

Ol' Kent has been working his way through the criminal code: Tax evasion, structured transactions (money laundering), spousal abuse, etc... I'm kind of surprised no one charged him with negligent homicide or something like that for the boy that drowned on his property.

 

[AV1611VET]

From the article:

"Our ability to predict earthquake hazards is, frankly, lousy," Seth Stein, a professor of Earth sciences at Northwestern University in Illinois, told LiveScience then. "Criminalizing something would only make sense if we really knew how to do this and someone did it wrong."​

If their ability was "lousy," why did they give the common people the confidence to go back home?

 

[AV1611VET]

Ol' Kent has been working his way through the criminal code: Tax evasion, structured transactions (money laundering), spousal abuse, etc..

Straining at gnats while swallowing camels, are you?

 

[Hans Blaster]

Straining at gnats while swallowing camels, are you?

Do you even speak English?

 

[dlamberth]

Six Italian scientists and a government official have been sentenced to six years in prison over statements they made prior to a 2009 earthquake that killed 309 in the town of L'Aquila.

SOURCE

Those scientist were exonerated because they used the best available science.

Science | AAAS

 

[sjastro]

Wow. You throw out (10-year-old) chaff to distract from a creep like Kent Hovind. I thought you had better standards.

Mug shot of Kent Hovind circa 2007.

 

[AV1611VET]

Those scientist were exonerated because they used the best available science.

The best available science got 309 people killed, didn't it?

 

[Hans Blaster]

The best available science got 309 people killed, didn't it?

Hovind has only killed one (so far). "309" is off topic.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

AV likes to think reminding us that scientists aren't infallible beings is somehow a shocking revelation.