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Climate scientist Michael Mann has sued the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the National Review for defamation over statements that accuse Mann of scientific misconduct and that compare him to convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky.
Climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann discusses the role AI and social media play in perpetuating climate falsehoods
Michael Mann’s lawyer told the Washington DC jury that finding against Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg would vindicate their progressive sympathies and dissuade others from critiquing the methods and conduct of warmist science. And that’s what the panel did, treating the case as an opportunity to punish climate heresy. If this verdict stands, scientific debate and free speech both fall
Recent events give new meaning to the term "trumped-up charges." A Democratic New York State Supreme Court justice, in cahoots with a Democratic state attorney general, has written a new chapter in the book of political lawfare. With no victims, no client complaints and no evidence of fraud, Judge Arthur Engoron nonetheless levied a $354…
Last week in Washington DC, USA, a court dealt a terrifying blow against science and free speech. A man was on trial, and found guilty, for attacking what he said was false science and for criticising its perpetrators. It reminded me – although I hasten to add that the similarities are imperfect – of the trial in 1633 of Galileo who, contrary to the establishment of the time, denied that the Sun moved around the Earth, and said the Earth moved around the Sun.