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A Washington, D.C., jury ruled in favor of University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann on Thursday in a defamation case he brought against two critics of his work more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n
Mann first filed the defamation suit in October 2012 against Rand Simberg, who compared Mann to convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky for Mann\u2019s alleged data manipulation in his signature 1998 \u201chockey stick\u201d climate model in a blog post for the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), and Mark Steyn, a right-of-center political pundit who referenced Simberg\u2019s blog post in his own writing about the \u201chockey stick\u201d model for National Review. Steyn will reportedly have to pay $1 million in damages, while Simberg will have to pay $1,000, according<\/a> to The New York Times.<\/p>\n
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A Washington, D.C., jury ruled in favor of University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann on Thursday in a defamation case he brought against two critics of his work more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n
Mann first filed the defamation suit in October 2012 against Rand Simberg, who compared Mann to convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky for Mann\u2019s alleged data manipulation in his signature 1998 \u201chockey stick\u201d climate model in a blog post for the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), and Mark Steyn, a right-of-center political pundit who referenced Simberg\u2019s blog post in his own writing about the \u201chockey stick\u201d model for National Review. Steyn will reportedly have to pay $1 million in damages, while Simberg will have to pay $1,000, Continue reading