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Cattledog

(6,352 posts)
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 03:34 PM Feb 2024

Climate scientist Michael Mann wins defamation case against conservative writers.

Michael Mann, among the world's most renowned climate scientists, won a defamation case in D.C. Superior Court against two conservative writers.

Mann, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, had sued Rand Simberg, a policy analyst, and Mark Steyn, a right-wing author, for online posts published over a decade ago, respectively, by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the National Review.

Mann is partly responsible for one of the most consequential graphs in climate science, one that helped make the steep rise in global average temperatures from fossil fuel use understandable to a wide audience.

The writers rejected Mann's findings. In his online post, Steyn had called Mann's work "fraudulent." Simberg called Mann, who formerly worked at Penn State, the "Sandusky of climate science" — a reference to Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach and convicted child sex abuser. Simberg wrote that Mann had "molested and tortured data."

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Climate scientist Michael Mann wins defamation case against conservative writers. (Original Post) Cattledog Feb 2024 OP
I'm glad offenders are being held accountable. badhair77 Feb 2024 #1
Statement from Union of Concerned Scientists LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2024 #2

badhair77

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1. I'm glad offenders are being held accountable.
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 03:39 PM
Feb 2024

Maybe others will reconsider before they defame people.

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