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Editor's comment: Causing tremors in the industry

Mairi MacDonald

You don’t have to look far for evidence that a ‘blame culture’ is spreading in our society, but there are surely few examples as alarming as the manslaughter convictions of six Italian scientists who failed to predict that a deadly earthquake would strike the Abruzzo region of the country within days.

The scientists had met six days before the 6.3 magnitude quake struck the central Italian city of L'Aquila when, according to reports, their assessment was that a major quake was unlikely but not

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