Hi Cathryn,

Honestly, I think that people who are behind bars should not be making earthquake predictons, especially if they were not a scientist before they got there.

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Yes, I know he is serving, if I remember correctly, a 99 year sentence, and I know what for. Still, you and I are not scientists, yet we post predictions. Maybe he is really on to something. Just because he made a foolish error of judgment doesn't mean we should necessarily toss out his theories.

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This person insofar as I am aware has no successful track record yet for some reason seems to draw an unusual amount of attention.

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Well, let's see if his latest prediction pans out before we write him off completely. I think that's only fair.

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There was a mini-series produced in the 1980's call QBVII, for Queens Bench #7, a courtroom in England. It revolved around a man who was a doctor and one who experimented on children in the death camps. Later he was knighted by the Queen of England for his humanitarian accomplishments. He sued the author for slander when he wrote the truth about him in a book. The court awarded the doctor 1/2 penny, the lowest coin in the realm.

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Your point being?

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This situation reminds me of this story. If he hit every large quake from here to eternity, it cannot ever erase a life he changed forever.

Perhaps not, in case of the almost 18-yr. old involved who decided to make this her life script. But the law is the law. Still, I don't see the connection to his personal behavior and what might be a reliable method of predicting earthquakes. And if he hit every prediction he made from here to eternity, I would think the scientific community would have to take note.

Does he belong in jail? Probably. Does his earthquake predicting methods work? That remains to be seen. You are comparing apples to oranges here. I don't care if he had murdered someone. If his methodology works, that's worth discussing, not his incarceration.

Cathryn

Petra