Humanity Confuses Me.

[Kethrian]

They not only don't understand how science works, they're being wilfully obtuse just so they can have a scapegoat, so the government officials, the ones who were in charge of making all the decisions, can pass the blame and pretend they're not the ones responsible.  Welcome to politics.

[Halinn]

They not only don't understand how science works, they're being wilfully obtuse just so they can have a scapegoat, so the government officials, the ones who were in charge of making all the decisions, can pass the blame and pretend they're not the ones responsible.  Welcome to politics.

And it's even worse, they're not punished for giving false hope, they're punished for saying "we don't know"

The quake, which hit the town of L’Aquila in 2009, came after the geophysicists told city officials on a risk-assessment commission that they were unable to make a detailed prediction about whether ongoing tremors might indicate a coming disaster