Posted on 07/28/2021 11:22:06 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
A Washington, D.C. judge has ruled that the conservative think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute cannot be held responsible for an outside blogger’s 2012 online attack on a prominent climate scientist.
At the same time, the judge decided that a jury should decide whether the blogger, Rand Simberg, should be held liable for his post, which excoriated Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann and suggested that he had engaged in fraud. Mark Steyn, an outside blogger for the National Review, another conservative publication, also should face a trial over his own post, two days after Simberg’s, Superior Court Judge Alfred Irving Jr. ruled.
Steyn had quoted extensively from Simberg’s original broadside, comparing the climate scientist to Jerry Sandusky, the disgraced Penn State assistant football coach in the wake of Sandusky’s conviction for child sexual abuse, writing that Mann “molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science.” After demanding a retraction and an apology that were not forthcoming, Mann sued for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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It is quite humorous for a deposition, and is totally "Steyn."
-PJ
After Canada ruled for Steyn, he knows his American win is a fait accompli. Meanwhile on the delusional swami circuit, Mann is keeping up these cases to have something to talk about.
BTW, Mark just finished his weekly FREE LIVE SHOW where he ROASTED MANN (see below) and salted the ashes!
They are reracking the show into mp4 for the archives at the moment but it should be up this afternoon for replay.
"As many of you know, we're now in the tenth year of climate mullah Michael E Mann's defamation suit against me for mocking his "hockey stick". When he lost to Professor Tim Ball in the British Columbia Supreme Court, we headlined our report:
Michael E Mann, Loser
"When he lost to National Review in the District of Columbia Superior Court, we headlined it:
Michael E Mann, Loser (Again)
"When he lost to the Competitive Enterprise Institute just last week, we sub-headed it:
Michael E Mann, Loser (Again) (and Again)
"But this joke may be coming too thick and too fast to merit twice-weekly reprise. So today I'll just stick to the Reason headline:
Judge Strikes All of Michael Mann's Expert Witnesses from Libel Suit
https://www.steynonline.com/11508/youre-once-twice-three-times-a-loser
Will get back to you on that in a couple, currently out and about.
I wanted to follow the Mann vs. Steyn proceedings, but in the last few years I don't see much about it.
Mark occasionally comments on it at steynonline.com.
His book on Michael Mann, "A Disgrace to the Profession," is vintage Steyn.
Here's a pretty good article on the Canadian case. Mann lost because he wouldn't provide original data and calculations to the court. As loser, he had to pay Steyn's court costs.
Here's a decent link: Mann Loses in Canada
There's been recent activity in the still existing American libel suit. The list of defendants has been winnowed, and most of Mann's experts have been thrown out by the judge. But, I'm not following that very closely.
And the same will happen here.
But not before compelling him to spend massive amounts of money and endure incessant attacks from the left and in the media.
Mann IS a fraud.
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