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<blockquote data-quote="Brigantine" data-source="post: 981716" data-attributes="member: 73940"><p>I get what you're saying. I guess I'm just cynical and blame journalists fishing around and asking scientists leading questions, rather than "experts" proactively seeking attention.</p><p></p><p>Someone rings you up out of the blue and asks "If you're such a great scientist, how come you didn't know that volcanoes could be dangerous?", "would you go to White Island for a picnic?"</p><p>"What the hell are you talking about? Of course we knew! It's normal, that's what a Volcanic Alert means", "Of course not, I'd never go to an active volcano without a good reason"</p><p>Then an article appears saying "Look at this guy, he says he knew White Island could erupt at any moment, so dangerous that he'd never go there"</p><p></p><p>Re your last point, yeah, that's true. But OTOH people just ignore tsunami warnings because there have been so many that were hyped up and ended up being a big nothingburger. It's hard to make people take this sort of frequent low-probability-high-consequence risk seriously. (But for people who were actually organizing to go to White Island, I'm sure they talked about it properly)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brigantine, post: 981716, member: 73940"] I get what you're saying. I guess I'm just cynical and blame journalists fishing around and asking scientists leading questions, rather than "experts" proactively seeking attention. Someone rings you up out of the blue and asks "If you're such a great scientist, how come you didn't know that volcanoes could be dangerous?", "would you go to White Island for a picnic?" "What the hell are you talking about? Of course we knew! It's normal, that's what a Volcanic Alert means", "Of course not, I'd never go to an active volcano without a good reason" Then an article appears saying "Look at this guy, he says he knew White Island could erupt at any moment, so dangerous that he'd never go there" Re your last point, yeah, that's true. But OTOH people just ignore tsunami warnings because there have been so many that were hyped up and ended up being a big nothingburger. It's hard to make people take this sort of frequent low-probability-high-consequence risk seriously. (But for people who were actually organizing to go to White Island, I'm sure they talked about it properly) [/QUOTE]
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