Comments on: Bad Science http://sarahaskew.net/2010/04/07/bad-science/ sarahaskew.net Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:05:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: sarah http://sarahaskew.net/2010/04/07/bad-science/comment-page-1/#comment-3769 sarah Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:40:49 +0000 http://sarahaskew.net/?p=2035#comment-3769 Wow that's quite amazing. In many ways the Netherlands is such a sensibly-run country with rational, open-minded people - I always find it extra astonishing when things go so badly wrong. I hope she finds some way of recovering from this whole ordeal.... Date corrected - thanks for pointing it out. Wow that’s quite amazing. In many ways the Netherlands is such a sensibly-run country with rational, open-minded people – I always find it extra astonishing when things go so badly wrong. I hope she finds some way of recovering from this whole ordeal….

Date corrected – thanks for pointing it out.

]]> By: Richard Gill http://sarahaskew.net/2010/04/07/bad-science/comment-page-1/#comment-3768 Richard Gill Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:06:12 +0000 http://sarahaskew.net/?p=2035#comment-3768 14th April, not 16th! 14th April, not 16th!

]]> By: Richard Gill http://sarahaskew.net/2010/04/07/bad-science/comment-page-1/#comment-3766 Richard Gill Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:04:00 +0000 http://sarahaskew.net/?p=2035#comment-3766 It's pretty clear that Lucia de Berk will be judged not guilty of any murders or murder attempts. However, as the public prosecution delightfully rubbed in, her convictions for stealing two library books (she didn't) and some medicines (I have some university pens and writing pads at home which I use for non university purposes) still stand. Worst of all, four times she lied under oath - namely four times she had handed over a fabricated high school diploma to a civil-servant when applying for a traineeship or a job. As many others did in those days, on advice of people in authority, when there was a terrible shortage of nurses but some regulations had recently been changed making it harder to become one. The point being 1) we know she's evil, but she was too clever and the judges too stupid, for us to get her convicted, 2), since some of the charges against her have not been overturned, because it was not possible to have these lesser charges reviewed, she legally will not be elegible for any compensation. The punchline bring: once we decide that you're guilty, you're dead, like it or not. It’s pretty clear that Lucia de Berk will be judged not guilty of any murders or murder attempts. However, as the public prosecution delightfully rubbed in, her convictions for stealing two library books (she didn’t) and some medicines (I have some university pens and writing pads at home which I use for non university purposes) still stand. Worst of all, four times she lied under oath – namely four times she had handed over a fabricated high school diploma to a civil-servant when applying for a traineeship or a job. As many others did in those days, on advice of people in authority, when there was a terrible shortage of nurses but some regulations had recently been changed making it harder to become one. The point being 1) we know she’s evil, but she was too clever and the judges too stupid, for us to get her convicted, 2), since some of the charges against her have not been overturned, because it was not possible to have these lesser charges reviewed, she legally will not be elegible for any compensation. The punchline bring: once we decide that you’re guilty, you’re dead, like it or not.

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