"I'Im not crazy. I know they can't predict earthquakes," the Ital- ian public prosecutor Fabio Picuti told Nature last year. He was speaking as the manslaughter trial began in the ruined town of L'Aquila of six scientists and one government official for their alleged role in the deaths of 309 people in the quake of April 2009 (see Nature 477,264-269; 2011). On Monday evening, the seven were found guilty and sentenced to six years in prison (see Nature http://doi.org/jkp; 2012). The verdict is perverse and the sentence ludicrous.
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