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National Review Online being sued for defamation

Posted: Jul 24, 2013

NRO being sued by climate scientist, Michael Mann. "Mann has been the target of numerous investigations into his work and has been cleared of any wrongdoing every time. Since some of these investigations were prompted by NRO [National Review Online] and CEI [Competitive Enterprise Institute], they had to know he was cleared of academic fraud, yet they continued to accuse him of it. Oops." "Unsurprisingly, both the NRO and CEI were unhappy with this and tried to block the lawsuit using SLAPP lawsâ��rules used to stop lawsuits that try to censor criticism. However, a District of Columbia Superior Court judge has ruled that SLAPP doesnâ��t apply. Mannâ��s lawsuit can move forward." Full story here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/07/24/antiscience_defamation_climate_scientist_michael_mann_lawsuit_to_move_forward.html?wpisrc=obnetwork ;

This is what the libel laws are for. Good for him. - More with reputations attacked should. nm

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agree! - nm

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He'll win, but the Koch bros or others will pay the Review's - judgement and it'll continue lying.nm

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and if NRO continues to defame, they will be sued again - sm

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It's time that people understand that "Freedom of Speech" doesn't make a source truthful.

Yes, I hope this does encourage others to - fight back. nm

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So what? The Koch Bros aren't Communists, are they? - nm

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That's actually funny. Intentional? - :) nm

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Don't think he has much of a chance of winning - Truthhurts

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There are so many articles on this suit stating that he doesn’t have much of a chance, but it doesn’t help that he even lied or should we say stretched the truth?) in his complaint. Note the STATEMENT OF FACTS #17, he still states he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with other IPCC authors (which is the last link I posted).

He had claimed to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which he then changed to he received a "certificate for his contributions," but Only persons named explicitly in the citation may claim to share a Nobel Prize.

"Geir Lundestad, Director, Professor, of The Norwegian Nobel Institute emailed me back with the following:

1) Michael Mann has never been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

2) He did not receive any personal certificate. He has taken the diploma awarded in 2007 to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (and to Al Gore) and made his own text underneath this authentic-looking diploma.

3) The text underneath the diploma is entirely his own. We issued only the diploma to the IPCC as such. No individuals on the IPCC side received anything in 2007."

http://judithcurry.com/2012/10/26/week-in-review-102712/

He was under investigation by the Virginia attorney general's office when he was employed there for his use of government grant money.

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2012/10/penn-state-climate-scientist-sues-national-review-for-libel.html

He didn’t like being associated with Sandusky at Penn State but he was under investigation there and many analysts agree there are obvious similarities in the way Penn State University handled their internal separate investigations into Mann and Sandusky because it was done by Spanier, who had to resign for not investigating the Sandusky scandal right.

http://johnosullivan.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/michael-mann-gets-most-biased-judge-for-key-us-global-warming-trial/

http://www.openmarket.org/2012/07/13/the-other-scandal-in-unhappy-valley/

Check out the complaint:

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/michael-mann-complaint.pdf

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let me help you with that - sm

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"Mann has been the target of numerous investigations into his work and has been cleared of any wrongdoing every time."

National Review is a propaganda rag. Its an abomination. - nm

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(finally!) - nm

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