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Climatologist Michael Mann Finally Won a $1M Defamation Suit - But Then a Judge Threw It Out
Slashdot has run nearly a dozen stories about Michael Mann, one of America's most prominent climate scientists and a co-creator of the famous "hockey stick" graph of spiking temperatures. In 2012 Mann sued two bloggers for defamation — and last year Mann finally won more than $1 million, repo...
SlashdothasrunnearlyadozenstoriesaboutMichaelMann, one of America's most prominent climate scientists and a co-creator of the famous " hockey stick" graph of spiking temperatures. "A jury found that two conservative commentators had defamed him by alleging that he was like a child molester in the way he had 'molested and tortured' climate data. On Wednesday, a judge sanctioned Mann's legal team for "bad-faith trial misconduct" for overstating how much the scientist lost in potential grant funding as a result of reputational harm.
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