Should scientists be held accountable for not predicting things?

[Anonymous No.11760548]

[Anonymous No.11760549]

>>11760548
First the intellectuals.
Second the books.
Third the people.

[Anonymous No.11760550]

dunno its kinda undetermined
or thoughts by like people can affecting reality determined
nd at same time its natural selection through quantum immortality

so dunno
complicated i guess

[Anonymous No.11760625]

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okay

[Anonymous No.11760626]

>>11760548
Only if it is their paid and voluntarily accepted duty to predict said thing, and they failed to uphold their duty of care to such an extent that a "reasonable person" would deem it to be negligence or dereliction of duty.

A more interesting question would be "should they be punished for negligence when the outcome was, incidentally, not as catastrophic as it COULD have been?". I pose this question to highlight the failures of almost all governments to react to what places like 4chan were already freaking out about (COVID19) in late January.

Obviously it turned out to be a fucking nothing-burger, but they waited until after a reasonable time to react to a potentially deadly pandemic to implement any measures, and then escalated them radically after we started to realize it had under 0.5% kill rate, and mainly popped aging diabetics, people with heart and lung diseases (TB, anyone..?) as well as the elderly and otherwise infirm.

Accountability is a very important topic in this day and age.

[Anonymous No.11760663]

>>11760548
No, but they should be held accountable for incorrectly predicting excessively severe outcomes.

[Anonymous No.11760684]

>>11760548