It’s not really that twisted. If “scientists” insist on taking control of our lives and fortunes based on their prognostications on issues such as “Global Warming”, then they better be prepared to take the heat when they are wrong!?
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...yep, let these twinkies suffer the slings and arrows for their lock-step idolation at the altar of “global warming...
Whereas I think this trial is egregious, I have to agree with your premise. I don’t know about Italy, but in the US there are way too many liberals among scientists - especially at the University level. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.