Oh yes. I am "misdirected" because I actually know and understand the science, as opposed to a random armchair pseudo-scientist on a forum.

Get a grip and actually look into the science. This was ONE scientist making the claim, dozens of other debunked them. The fact one happened does not make him right. he was off on both time and location. No scientist int he field acknowledges his methods.

Just because you're all ramped up to blame the government doesn't make this guy Nostradomus.

Imminent has the same definition regardless of the science used. If he wanted to draw attention he should have explained or given a range of months/years in which is could happen.

I don't see how my growing up in CA would some how miraculously change the definition of "imminent." Quakes happen on fault lines all day every day. Thousands of them every year in Japan and hundreds every year in CA. It is a GOOD thing. The small quakes release pressure and prevent big ones. Of course one is "imminent." Probably several a day.

This guys science was way way off and his actions to evacuate people meant he believed it would happen RIGHT NOW. You don't evacuate people if you think its off in the distant future.

Grow up dude. We know less about the inner workings of fault lines than we do about Mars. You're continued insistence on "Yes we can" is both immature as well as unrealistic. Just give it a rest or take it to a peace rally where it belongs. You haven't the slightest clue what you're actually talking about.

First of all, comparing atmospheric science with geological is asinine in the extreme. We can send blimps, track via satellites etc for all our atmospheric needs. No known technology we possess today is capable of reaching the depths and temperatures involved in the geological phenomenon known as earthquakes. The technology doesn't exist.

Regardless of what the article says, and yes I did read it, I also read about 10 others from other sources which were much better informed than this tripe, what this "scientist" did wasn't acceptable. Without permission from local authorities he began telling everyone to EVACUATE. This first of all wasn't his responsibility and second of all, as a scientist should have known his methods were not accurate or reliable.

I can sit on a street corner and scream for everyone to flee because a crash is coming and if I do it long enough, eventually one will happen. All this guy did was sit on a fault line and then tell people "Look see I was right!" when one went off a long time into the future.

I grew up in CA and have dealt with quakes my whole life. For the better part of 15 years we've been told the big one is coming. If it does, you can bet there will be 200 scientists all climbing over each other to blame the government for not acting on their "science."

All this article is doing is pointing fingers and laying blame on HUMANS for NATURAL phenomenon. It's like all the blame on government for the tsunamis a few years back.

Bad things happen. If you want to assign blame, then assign it to the morons who built on fault lines and did it with sub-standard building codes. Don't run around screaming about a junk-scientist who claims to predict the end of the world.

You're living in fantasyland my friend. First of all, the technology doesn't exist. So therefore, doesn't apply to this discussion. "Yes we can" as attractive as it is doesn't apply to the cold hard reality that "we can't yet."

You're more than welcome to chip in and try to develop the technology if you like. Doesn't change the fact it doesn't exist right now and that this guy didn't actually predict the quake.

You're also delusional if you think animals can predict them. They don't. They react to micro quakes we can't feel. This isn't prediction, it's sensation.

I get that you want this "happy feel good" thing to work out but you need to ground youself in reality or you just come off as a whacko.

You would be taken more seriously if you made an attempt to spell and punctuate. You come off as an angry four year old screaming for a cookie.

What does this have to do with political correctness? The guy was using junk science to predict earthquakes. There is NO WAY to predict an earthquake. It is IMPOSSIBLE with our present technology. You can't do it. Period.

The fact one happened a month later has nothing to do with this guys predictions. He said it was imminent but never said where it would occur.

I think you should look into what political correctness is. This is entirely unrelated.

He didn't "predict" the earthquake. He ran some tests months ahead of time and made a general assumption there would be a quake. He also took the insane approach of setting up a mic system in a van and scaring the hell out of the people in those neighborhoods.

The fact that a quake happened later on does not mean his prediction was correct. Quakes can not be predicted, the technology doesn't exist. I grew up in CA where they are common and where we've been told the "big one" is coming for the better part of 15 years.

Bottomline is that the guy predicted it was imminent. It wasn't. The fact one happened later on doesn't mean he was correct. I could stand on a street corner today and "predict" a crash. I could even give scientific evidence and statistics one would happen. If after being carried away by the police a crash happens a week or month later then you can not say I was correct in my predictions.

It isn't being censored. Censorship can only be done by the Government and the law strictly forbids it from doing so. This is a private Television affiliate choosing not to air a program on ITS airwaves. It is perfectly within it's own rights not to run the show. If people don't like it, they need not watch the station at all.

Free choice is great isn't it?

Thank you for that well composed response. The extreme lefty trolls around here do get really tiring.