It is very encouraging to see that the legal system is beginning to rise from its slumber and has begun to view scientists as being no different from other professions; they must be held accountable for their actions.

Let us hope that this precedent serves as the basis for the application of similar standards in other areas, such as “climate science”. Some jail time for a few of our “scientists” can only provide encouragement for the rest.

Maybe they'll wake up now? But then, I don't believe that people really change. Those kind will just find other ways to be the same, and do the same dirty deeds they always have. Their "moral compass" has gone astray.

"We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."May L. BeckerCoffee.......the foundation of consciousness

This story was on our national news. In my house, we all looked at each other as if to say, "what the hell?". This is something we've never heard of before. I read your link canuck and it made me wonder what each of them was thinking when they decided not to mention to the public, the possibility of this quake happening. If I had to be a judge of any kind there I don't know if jail would have been my answer to instilling in these people a moral responsibility to the public who are left in grave danger because of my advice. Most people do listen to the people of science. But some people of science are more interested in grant money and jumping on band-wagons to be popular. That's not real science in my book!.
I would have probably punished them in their tenures and pocketbooks to wake them up to their very real responsibility to be truthful and let people think for themselves and not follow after the science-gods.

"We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."May L. BeckerCoffee.......the foundation of consciousness