How to deter scientific input to policy decisions…

earthquake, Italian science, manslaughter 1 Minute

Our Italian friends are putting scientists on trial for manslaughter–their crime? Carrying out a “superficial risk analysis” in the context of the April 2009 earthquake. The story is here. Not a good move in my opinion….it’ll hasten the exodus of young Italian scientists to other places.

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Native Angeleno, professor of Neuroscience and Public Policy at George Mason University

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