On 23 September 2011 the Italian Minister of Education Maria Stella Gelmini attracted widespread criticism and ridicule for a statement released on the Education ministry website, with regard to the breakthrough at the Gran Sasso laboratory in Abruzzo, Italy, where neutrino particles were recorded at a speed greater than the speed of light. Among other inaccuracies, the statement wrongly declares that the Italian Government had contributed to building a tunnel between the Gran Sasso laboratory and CERN in Switzerland (such a tunnel does not exist and it is obviously impossible to realise, as the two locations are ~750 km apart). The statement caused an uproar in the italian public, which considered unacceptable for an Education Minister to engage in such a colossal display of ignorance. [from en.wikipedia.org]
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I suppose the real question is for how much longer will she continue to trail her knuckles along the ground as a Minister of the Italian Republic?
The neutrino partcle experiment itself shows that the country deserves to have people of quality as its representatives.
So if Angela Merkel has a doctorate in quantum chemistry, why is the government of Italy currently in the hands of a business sharpster with the public style of a drunk footballer in a lockerroom?
Egregio professor Cronin, lei ha ragione: l’Italia è ancora capace di esprimere talenti e ci vorrebbe una classe dirigente di pari livello. Ma dopo 17 anni bisogna anche prendere atto che l’attuale governo non è avulso dalla realtà, ma rappresenta lo specchio di una ampia fetta di italiani. Speriamo in un salto di qualità.