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too late
Next up we will be prosecuting meteorologists for failing to predict a rainstorm.
Leo Lippens wants to sue the private weather service Meteo Belgique for issuing a pessimistic full-summer forecast that he says wasn't "fair" because it didn't emphasize that the Belgian coast generally has clearer weather than the rest of the country.
That sort of nonsense just opens up all sorts of frivolous lawsuits. I can just envision the insurance companies suing astronomers for not "predicting" this sort of thing:
Meteorite hit suburban Calif. house - CBS News
Here you go, newbie:Oh great, looks like AV has one more to add to his list:
Challenger, Pluto, Thalidomide, the moon, and now failure to predict large earthquakes.
Be Prepared.
That's why seismologists were probably picking their noses in Hawaii when Mexico got blindsided; or picking their noses in Monte Carlo when Haiti got blindsided.
As I have pointed out before -- pick any major disaster in history and tell me where the scientists were at the time; probably on the other side of the earth playing Euchre or getting their name in lights warning of a local disaster or something.
Then they rush to the scene and pose for pictures in the National Geographic or Time or something.
One thing that bugs me is when some tragedy strikes, and CNN has a scientist's head on TV, sitting in a chair fit for a CEO, telling us exactly what happened.
Here you go, newbie:
Be Prepared.
That's why seismologists were probably picking their noses in Hawaii when Mexico got blindsided; or picking their noses in Monte Carlo when Haiti got blindsided.
As I have pointed out before -- pick any major disaster in history and tell me where the scientists were at the time; probably on the other side of the earth playing Euchre or getting their name in lights warning of a local disaster or something.
Then they rush to the scene and pose for pictures in the National Geographic or Time or something.
One thing that bugs me is when some tragedy strikes, and CNN has a scientist's head on TV, sitting in a chair fit for a CEO, telling us exactly what happened.
But you are OK with them being sued for false advertising...even though they are not selling anything.
Where do you draw the line?
In the case of astronomers however, they're making a "knowledge claim". They claim to have created a "dark energy camera", when in fact nothing like that does exist or could exist.
How does this constitute false advertising, and what is your grounds for suing them, and in which court would you the action?
Doh!
I guess that will be the last time I assume that stupidity has boundaries...
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