SCOTUS Sanduskys National Review for Michael Mann

Timothy Birdnow

The so-called "conservative" Supreme Court is going to allow Michael "Nature Trick" Mann to sue National Review  and the American Enterprise Institute for defamation.

According to Yahoo News:

"Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except for instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data," Simberg wrote.

In a later post on National Review's website, conservative writer Mark Steyn quoted from Simberg's article and referred to Mann's research as "fraudulent."

Of course, Mann has sued - and lost to - both Mark Steyn AND Timothy Ball. But SCOTUS sees no reason to not allow this serial litigant to continue to harass detractors.

A conservative court? Hardly.

Penn State was home to both Sandusky and Michael Mann (and I tried to use that analogy but was rejected by most editors in the article I wrote out of fear of being sued). Mann is famous for his "hockey stick" graph which falsely eliminated the Medieval Warming Period to produce a graph that is steady until the mid Twentieth Century. He is also infamous for refusing to hand over his codes and other data despite a Freedom of Information request for them, and for his "Nature trick" in which he sneakily spliced proxy and real data together to produce the results he wanted and thus "hide the decline" as Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia put it.

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