From the dialog of the continued Mann vs Steyn trial, Steyn says:
I’m not a lawyer, however I assumed in protecting a defamation trial I is perhaps uncovered to one thing resembling proof of defamation. How naïve I used to be.
Nearly each side of Mann’s profession is healthier now than it was earlier than Steyn’s and Simberg’s weblog posts have been revealed. His wage is larger. He hangs out with celebrities akin to Invoice Clinton and Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom Mann testified to having a “bromance.” He was then working at Penn State however is now on the Ivy League College of Pennsylvania. He’s making extra in guide royalties.
If that is what hurt seems like, I welcome defamation by Steyn and Simberg any day.
Extra right here.
It will get worse, Steyn writes in one other put up:
Within the warmth of ClimateGate, Dr. Curry referred to as on her colleagues to make use of restraint. This resulted in her being referred to as by the Plaintiff within the then-widely learn Huffington Publish a “serial local weather disinformer.” Being labeled a “disinformer” didn’t work although, so it was time to play the Scarlett Letter card. Earlier than the #MeToo period, that accusation sadly labored all too effectively, and on the time the nice physician unfold these rumors — the aughts — it’d as effectively have been 1642.
The next actually needed to be said and requested in Courtroom as we speak:
Dr. Judith Curry: Michael Mann knew who I used to be. My title appeared in one of many ClimateGate emails that Mann despatched. He knew who I used to be. I imply, when this story was modified or altered to painting me as a graduate scholar, to my thoughts, the implication that I used to be, you understand, only a girl sleeping my technique to the highest. And in the event you’re knowledgeable girl, that is in regards to the worst factor that anybody can say about you. It discredits your accomplishments and it offers individuals permission to disregard you.
Protection Counsel: Dr. Curry, did you ever get any of your tenured school positions or division chairs or awards or publications or anything since you slept with anyone?
Dr. Judith Curry: No.
Let that sink in: “Should you’re knowledgeable girl, that is in regards to the worst factor that anybody can say about you. It discredits your accomplishments and it offers individuals permission to disregard you.”
That is what Dr. Curry described as we speak as “Hockey Stick Warfare.”
Watch the continued trial dwell right here:
Courtroom 132
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